SINGAPORE
Daily Mail
By Sam Duncan For Daily Mail Australia
The Vatican’s third most senior figure cut a lonely figure in a hotel lobby before attending Sunday mass during a stopover to face historical sex charges in Australia.
Cardinal George Pell, who is Australia’s most powerful Catholic leader, was in Singapore on his way back home from Rome to have his day in court.
He was spotted looking pensive in his hotel before meeting another man and going to 10.30am mass at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Singapore’s Civic District.
Pell refused to comment or answer questions when confronted by a Seven News reporter as he got into a car.
Cardinal Pell, who serves as the Pope’s treasurer, is the highest-ranking official to be charged in the sex abuse scandal that has dogged the Catholic Church for years.
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