At 6’4” the late Cardinal George Pell towered over his fellow prelates in height and stature. George Pell, renowned for his toughness, blunt candor, and fearless demeanor—qualities forged, in part, during his days as a hard-charging Australian Rules ruckman. Pell was a battle-scarred athlete, known for his savage takedowns, and the most formidable fighter in the entire College of Cardinals. His intellect and instincts were every bit as lethal as his physical prowess, with his verbal blows carrying the same crushing ferocity as his physical ones.
Whether Cardinal Pell was ruthlessly exposing the cynical manipulation and power grabs in the Synodal meetings or fearlessly digging into the financial sewer of corruption at the Vatican Bank, he didn’t flinch.
Almost immediately in the synodal process, Cardinal Pell spotted the slick manipulation and backroom dealing in the Synodal swamp. With the fearlessness of a ruckman, he called out the Synodal fouls, the penalties and the blatant infractions throughout the early process.
Six years into the Synod, the machinery is now gathering dangerous momentum, making Pell’s admonitions and warnings more prophetic, timely and urgent than ever. His warnings must be revisited as the Synod further journeys into the muck and quicksand of modernism. See Synodal Study Group #9
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