AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
April 11, 2020
By Andrew Hornery
All eyes will be on Cardinal George Pell’s first exclusive interview fresh from Barwon prison with his most ardent of supporters, conservative commentator Andrew Bolt.
The holy man’s sensational acquittal this week has had many implications across the Australian media and publishing worlds which have followed the Cardinal’s extraordinary story over the past few years, but from a less favourable perspective than Bolt, whose interview will air next Tuesday.
Pell has consistently maintained his innocence and until Tuesday morning had been serving a six-year jail sentence after he was convicted in 2018 of abusing two choir boys in the 1990s while he was the archbishop of Melbourne.
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