(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.
THE CRUCIFIED CARDINAL 