No, I'm not talking about those fucking horrid cartoon minions from those fucking horrid movies. I'm talking about one of Frankie's tip-top Vatican cohorts. Cardinal George Pell, who's Frankie's financial advisor, to be exact:
And what did Georgie boy do? Abscond with Vatican funds? No. Give away secret state secrets? No. Allegedly sexually assault people decades ago in Australia? Yes. Yes he (allegedly) did. Georgie-Porgie of course denies the accusations, and says he'll fight the charges. Meantime, he's taken a leave of absence to return to the Land of Oz to do just that.
Kinda seems ironic to me that the man who would (allegedly) likely have to "thumbs up" church payments to victims of pedophile priests could (allegedly) end up having to sign the cheque for his own settlement.
But, innocent until proven guilty, as they say. Although with the track record of a seemingly vast majority of clergy preying on their parishioners instead of praying for them, rightly or wrongly, in George's case it may well be guilty until proven innocent. Fortunately, the Australian courts, not me, will decide.
However it turns out, this will be another large black blot on an increasingly stained organization. How badly stained? More than 65 hundred clerics have been accused of abusing minors between 1950 and 2015. And how much has this cost people who put that envelope in the plate every Sunday? Millions, if not billions of $$. If proven guilty, George would be the highest ranking member of the Vatican Mafia yet to be convicted.
'Nuff said.
