Rather than howls of outrage from members of the Catholic Church, this should elicit a pause of reflection as to how it came to pass that the organization has so little credibility on issues relating to pederasty that even normally-convincing evidence in their favor is rejected by regular folk.
“Rather than howls of outrage from members of the Catholic Church, this should elicit a pause of reflection as to how it came to pass that the organization has so little credibility...”
Yes. Should be cause for some serious and deep soul searching.
It's a long story, but think of Cardinal Pell as the Donald Trump of Australia. You know how the Democrats are always trying to find something on him to impeach him with? That's how Australians have always acted toward Cardinal Pell because he's uncompromising when it comes to the Catholic faith (e.g., repeatedly refusing Communion to gay activists). He's been accused of this before, but always managed to flat-out prove he didn't do it (like for example, being out of the country for an entire year surrounding the supposed molestation and being able to prove that with his passport and credit card statements).
There's a ton more directly related to the trial, but I'll leave it at that. Even his enemies in the press who had been dogging him for years wrote editorials in the major papers lamenting that there was no way he could get a fair trial in Australia.