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Acquitted Cardinal Pell back in Rome amid Vatican scandal – Sydney Morning Herald
The 79-year-old Pell arrived at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on a flight from Sydney wearing a blue surgical mask.
Rome: Cardinal George Pell, the former Vatican finance tsar who left in 2017 to face child sexual abuse charges in Australia, has returned to Rome after his acquittal to find a Vatican mired in a corruption scandal.
The 79-year-old Pell arrived at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on a flight from Sydney wearing a blue surgical mask. He waved briefly to reporters before getting into a waiting car without making any comments.
Cardinal George Pell waves as he arrives in Rome following a flight fr…
