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El cardenal Pell fallece el 10 de enero de 2023
InfoCatólica 10.01.2023 23:14h
El cardenal George Pell fallece en Roma el 10 de enero de 2023 a los 81 años de edad. A las 20:50 sufrió un paro cardíaco y murió. El purpurado se había sometido por la mañana a una operación de cambio de prótesis de cadera; y parece ser que tras la anestesia le falló el corazón.
El Cardenal George Pell nació en Ballarat (Australia) en 1941. Fue ordenado sacerdote en 1966, y en 1987 fue nombrado obispo titular de Scala y obispo auxiliar de Melbourne, diócesis de la que fue nombrado arzobispo en 1996. En 2001 fue nombrado arzobispo metropolitano de Sídney.
El 21 de octubre de 2003 fue creadp cardenal presbítero de Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello por el papa Juan Pablo II. Participó en el cónclave de 2005 en que salió elegido el papa Benedicto XVI.
Participó igualmente en el cónclave de 2013, en el que finalmente salió elegido el papa Francisco.
El cardenal Pell fue también miembro de la Congregación para los Obispos, de la Congregación para el Culto Divino y la Disciplina de los Sacramentos y de los Consejos Pontificios para la familia, para la Justicia y la Paz, para la Promoción de la Nueva Evangelización, para la Pastoral de la Salud.
El 29 de julio de 2014 fue nombrado miembro de la Congregación para la Evangelización de los Pueblos.
Fue uno de los ocho cardenales elegidos para formar parte del Consejo de Cardenales que fue creado por el papa Francisco para ayudarle en el gobierno de la Iglesia y reformar la Curia romana.
En la cárcel siendo inocente
El 24 de febrero de 2014 fue nombrado primer prefecto de la Secretaría de Economía de la Santa Sede, cargo que tuvo que abandonar para vivir su peor pesadilla personal al ser acusado falsamente de haber abusado de dos menores siendo arzobispo de Sidney.
En 2017, dejó Roma y se presentó en Australia para hacer frente a la acusación. Llegó a ser sentenciado y encarcelado, pero finalmente el Tribunal Supremo de Australia le declaró inocente.
Lo tuvieron 404 días en prisión, en confinamiento solitario, sin poder decir misa, ni tampoco asistir a misa. Fue puesto en libertad en 2020 tras ser declarado inocente y regresó a Roma el 30 de septiembre de 2020. Escribió un diario de prisión, publicado en tres volúmenes.
El cardenal declaró posteriormente que su fe le sostuvo y nunca se sintió abandonado:
Mi fe católica me sostuvo, especialmente el comprender que mi sufrimiento no era inútil sino que lo podía unir al de Cristo Nuestro Señor. Nunca me sentí abandonado, sabiendo que el Señor estaba conmigo, incluso cuando no entendía lo que Él estaba haciendo durante la mayor parte de esos trece meses.
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Cardinal George Pell died on Tuesday 10.01.2023 at the age of 81
By Katie Yoder, AC Wimmer Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 10, 2023 / 16:15 pm https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/
Cardinal George Pell, prefect emeritus of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, died on Tuesday 10.01.2023 at the age of 81.
The Australian prelate suffered a cardiac arrest and died at 8:50 p.m. Rome time, his secretary confirmed to EWTN.
A towering figure of the Church both physically and intellectually, Pell served for many years as archbishop of Melbourne and then Sydney before Pope Francis appointed him to lead the Vatican’s economy department in 2014.
He recently remembered the death of Pope Benedict XVI during an EWTN News In Depth Interview.
Asked about his reaction to the news on Dec. 31, the cardinal said: “I was very sad” since “I had known him well enough, I admired what he was about, I thought he was very good for the Church and so it was sad to see another wonderful phase in Church history ending.”
George Pell was born on June 8, 1941, in Ballarat, a town in Victoria, to an English-born Anglican father and a devout Catholic mother of Irish descent.
Pell was ordained a priest for the diocese in 1966. He was made an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne in 1987, and nine years later he was named archbishop of Melbourne [1996].
In 2001 he was appointed archbishop of Sydney, where he served until being appointed by Pope Francis to take charge of the newly created Secretariat for the Economy and to lead efforts at reforming Vatican financial affairs in 2014.
The Australian was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in October 2003, while he was archbishop of Sydney. Ten years later, Pope Francis appointed Pell a member of his Council of Cardinals, and the year after, he put him in charge of Vatican finances.
In 2017, Pell left Rome for Australia to defend his innocence of abuse charges. After 404 days in prison he was ultimately acquitted in 2020. He returned to live in Rome on Sept. 30, 2020, his first visit back to the city since his trial and imprisonment.
Cardinal Pell’s prison journal, written while he was in solitary confinement, is being published in three volumes. He has said he could not offer Mass in jail because he was not allowed access to wine for use in the consecration.
In 2021, Pell turned 80 years old, losing his eligibility to vote in a future papal conclave.
On May 13, 2021, Pell led a eucharistic procession at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum, in Rome, where he explained that during his 13 months in jail, he was “unable to celebrate Mass and attend Mass”.
“I listened to many Protestant preachers, and I became even more aware of the centrality of the liturgical celebration. It’s a making present of Christ’s sacrifice. It’s an explicit act of adoration. It involves the whole of our persons. It needs faith to be practiced,” he said.
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Australia reacted
By AC Wimmer Vatican, 10 January, 2023 / 9:20 pm (ACI Africa) https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/
The Catholic Church in Australia reacted with surprise and sadness at the news of the death of Cardinal George Pell, with one former prime minister saying the country had “lost a great son and the Church has lost a great leader.”
Pell, prefect emeritus of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, died Tuesday in Rome at the age of 81 from cardiac arrest.
“This news comes as a great shock to all of us,” Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney said in a first reaction on Facebook.
“Please pray for the repose of the soul of Cardinal Pell, for comfort and consolation for his family and for all of those who loved him and are grieving him at this time.”
Archbishop Peter Comensoli of Melbourne reacted “with great sadness” to the news, writing on Twitter: “May eternal light now be his, who so steadfastly believed in the God of Jesus Christ.”
“Larger than life, Cardinal Pell was a highly intelligent and well-read man who took a genuine interest in everyone around him,” Bishop Richard Umbers, an auxiliary bishop in Sydney, said on Twitter.
“A pioneer for much good in Sydney, Australia, and the entire church. Please join me in praying for the repose of his soul. Requiescat in pace.”
Many faithful added personal messages on social media, with one mourner writing: “Rest In Peace, my dear Cardinal, in the arms of the Lord. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:26.”
Another commentator said: “I have no doubt that Cardinal George Pell will be watching over our church throughout the days to come.”
Appointed in 2014 as the first prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy, Pell served as archbishop of Sydney from 2001 to 2014. Before that, he was archbishop of Melbourne from 1996 to 2001.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott wrote in a statement published on Twitter that Australia had “lost a great son and the Church has lost a great leader”.
Abbott, who briefly trained as a Catholic seminarian, praised Pell as a “committed defender of Catholic orthodoxy and a staunch advocate for the virtues of Western Civilization.”
Born in 1941 in the town of Ballarat, Pell was ordained a priest at St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, in 1966. He studied both at the Pontifical University Urbaniana and the University of Oxford.
As the highest-ranking Australian prelate of the Church and an outspoken public figure, Pell was described as “progressive on many social issues” but frequently polarized public opinion when it came to morality and the faith.
“As an ecclesiastical and cultural conservative, he attracted praise and blame from all the expected quarters,” the former prime minister of Australia wrote.
“In fact, he was a very pastoral priest who well understood the human stain and was more than capable of empathizing with sinners while still counseling against sin.”
Referring to Pell’s time in prison for alleged sexual abuse, Abbott added: “His incarceration on charges that the High Court ultimately scathingly dismissed was a modern form of crucifixion; reputationally at least a kind of living death.”
“In his own way, by dealing so equably with a monstrous allegation, he strikes me as a saint for our times.”
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