AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By Hannah Paine For Daily Mail Australia
Tim Minchin’s charity single criticising Catholic cardinal George Pell has been nominated for APRA song of the year.
The song, which labeled the cardinal ‘scum’ and a ‘pompous buffoon’, was released by Tim last March after the religious leader failed to leave the Vatican to testify in personal at the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse.
The singer-songwriter told The Daily Telegraph he was proud of the single’s recognition because ‘It managed to be funny about something that’s incredibly painful’.
Come Home (Cardinal Pell) raised money for survivors of child sex abuse to travel to Rome, where George testified via video link in March last year after claiming he was too ill to fly and give testimony in person.
The controversial single was criticised by supporters of George, however, won widespread praise for bring awareness and funds to child sex abuse victims of the Catholic church.
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