St Augustine and St Martha and Cardinal George Pell Who Fought Money-Laundering To His Death

(Above is an image of St Martha and another woman by Ciro Ferri (1633–1689) with words added by me.)

“I dreamed I saw St. Augustine
Alive with fiery breath
And I dreamed I was amongst the ones
That put him out to death” – Bob Dylan, October 17, 1967

Yesterday, on the front page of The Australian, a report by Paola Totaro (an Italian-Australian journalist based in London) headlined: “Money-laundering smoking gun could bring Vatican to its knees.” had a photo of Carinal George Pell but IMHO this report was deficient in not mentioning the monstrous injustice committed against Cardinal George Pell by a justice system, which I know (from personal experience going back to 2016) has been twisted and perverted by one or more people in the Australian Labor Party.

The Australian newspaper is consistently one of my first choices in looking for the truth. I hope this broadsheet journal gives significant space on the front page or opinion page ASAP to at least one good Catholic voice to expand upon the account given yesterday of George Pell’s anti money-laundering work, which was commissioned very early in his twelve year papacy by Pope Francis.

If the money laundering which Pell opposed caused more damage than necessary because The Cardinal was removed from his work by the monstrous injustice of false imprisonment, then those responsible for that false imprisonment should be held acccountable legally and financially.

Daniel Michael Andrews and Shane Andrew Patton and your successors, who have failed to right the wrong, this means you.

Six years ago today, Cardinal George Pell wrote in his Prison Journal these beautiful words about how important it is for believers not to lose their faith in what can be an overwhelmingly difficult world :

“Augustine tells us we are all heading toward the contemplation of God in heaven “still as pilgrims not yet at rest; still on the road, not yet home; still aiming at it, not yet attaining it”. “

We should not lament that we do not see the Lord in the flesh, because we see him in the least of those around us. Martha did well because she “received him (Christ) just as pilgrims are received. But it was the servant receiving her Lord, the sick woman receiving her Saviour, the creature receiving her Creator.” “

God Bless Cardinal George Pell and Pope Francis in heaven.

And all those who honour these two great men and their memory and continue fighting the wrong doing known to many of us wherever it may be, as did Cardinal George Pell and Pope Francis.

Geoff Fox, July 29, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

Words added by me to a painting by Antonio da Correggio (1489–1534) of Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard.

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