AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By DANIEL PIOTROWSKI FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
A priest who has known Cardinal George Pell for 30 years has launched a scathing attack on the Catholic leader, describing him as a ‘bully’ and ‘the best developed narcissist’ he knows.
Father Michael Kelly, a Jesuit priest and journalist, told ABC Radio he has been dismayed and disgusted with Pell’s appearance at the child abuse Royal Commission this week.
‘It’s now made plain to the world just who he is and what he’s like… But I must say I’m not surprised,’ he said.
‘I’ve known Cardinal Pell for over 30 years. And I really think he’s one of the best developed narcissists I’ve ever met in my life,’ he continued.
‘He’s astonishing at the way in which he can deploy his insensitivity.
‘He seems just impervious to human experience’.
Fr Kelly – who claimed Pell had ‘got me the sack’ from a publishing organisation once before – said of the embattled Vatican number 3: ‘He’s a bully, he’s just a bully.’
‘He gets exactly what he wants by standing over people.
‘As one priest in Melbourne said to me recently, he’s lived by the sword, he’s gonna die by the sword’.
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