Uncategorized – THE CRUCIFIED CARDINAL

A Prayer Inspired By George Pell’s Prison Journal – Mysterious Lord

My friend, anglo-catholic Anglican bishop David Farrer, describes George Pell’s prison journals as “remarkably uplifting” and said he is grateful for the way they help us to pray.

Above is a prayer which I have shaped today from words of the Cardinal about mass in the May 20, 2019 entry to the journal and from the words of Psalm 57 which he quotes in that entry.

Lest We Forget: Cardinal George Pell, a truly great man of God, thrown to the lions by a heartless injustice system.

Geoff Fox May 20, 2025, Melbourne Australia

THERE IS DIABOLICAL DARKNESS – WHAT WE NEED IS LIGHT

On April 20th, 2019, Cardinal George Pell (imprisoned in Victoria, Australia, as a result of conducting a mass) quoted in his Prison Journal this sentence from a letter to him from young Catholic Seminarians: ” We know that your trials and sufferings, your white martyrdom, will be a source of great fruit for the Church in Australia, and the Church at large.”

Pell wrote about this thought: ” I pray that this will be so, not least to counteract the damage, confusion and disillusion provoked by the conviction.”

Cowering in the stupidities of barnyard fear’s illusions of safety is one of our options.

But we do not have to live in the shadow of the stultifying shackles of our own divinity’s modern social death.

We do not have to be dead to possibilities.

But the darkness in our midst is of human creation and must be named if good people are to oppose and disarm it.

That is why this website exists.

its not going to be easy.

Our greatest love is stronger than death.

Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam

Geoff Fox

20th April, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

ps the above peice of word art adds the word “murder” to a photo of an 1866 wood engraving by Gustav Dore

explanatory note: in the Christian faith white martyrdom is distinguished from red martyrdom by the fact that red martyrdom involves death

Hello World!

In the Australian vernacular, the word “crucify” is often used as a metaphor to mean to treat very badly.

In my view, Cardinal George Pell was metaphorically crucified by a nascent police state because he was a conservative Christian.

Australia is not a fully fledged police state, but it is ridiculously over-policed and that is getting worse.

But in the hearts of Australian people and in the true spirit of the Christian religion, commitment to freedom and human decency can still be found.

If those values are paramount in learning the lessons of the tragedy of what the Victorian “justice system” did to Cardinal George Pell, then Australia and the world can be better places for the lesson.

If not, I see no decent future for the Western World.

Geoff Fox, 17th April, 2025, Melbourne, Australia