Tim Minchin's Come Home Cardinal Pell is a pitch-perfect protest song by Liam Viney, Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland. This song was a large contributor to a crowdfunded appeal that paid for survivors & relatives to travel to Rome to hear Cardinal Pell's testimony (aim was $55,000, $170,000 was raised.) The Cardinal's doctors certified his bad health did not allow him to travel back to Australia to give his testimony.

Ridsdale abuse 'sad' but 'not of much interest to me', Pell says Cardinal George Pell is facing more questions over his handling of notorious paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale at the child abuse royal commission in Rome. Follow live here live blog to Pell's evidence (Ridsdale was a priest who was moved around parishes in the 1970s)

transcript of evidence

Cardinal Pell says 'I have the full backing of the Pope'

When I first heard Tim Minchin's song about Cardinal Pell I laughed. Then I started crying. What's there to cry about? The victims of child sexual abuse and their harrowing testimony, the terrible injustice, and the sorrow at my loss of faith in the church (Kristina Keneally, former Premier of New South Wales)

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Fallen Order Intrigue, Heresy, and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio by Karen Leibreich.
Book review, 2004, "A sordid tale of pederast priests and blind-eye bishops: a headline fit for today, that is 350-odd years old. . . . Liebrich's account shows not only that priestly abuse is an old problem, but also that cover-ups never work — a pointed moral with obvious, and timely, implications." Kirkus Reviews