Posted on 04/07/2020 5:42:59 PM PDT by naturalman1975
There has been an angry reaction after a Pope Francis tweet appeared to offer his support to Cardinal George Pell.
The Pope made comments in his Tuesday morning mass, just hours after the High Court overturned Pell’s convictions for the sexual abuse of children.
He then repeated similar comments on Twitter, comparing the suffering of those wrongly accused to the persecution of Jesus.
“In these days of #Lent, we’ve been witnessing the persecution that Jesus underwent and how He was judged ferociously, even though He was innocent. Let us #PrayTogether today for all those persons who suffer due to an unjust sentence because of someone had it in for them,” Pope Francis wrote on Twitter.
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Yes. For once he’s right.
Don’t get used to it
I would bet it has more to do with civil penalties than support for Pell.
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