At the same time, it is important to recall that Cardinal Pell has openly and repeatedly condemned as immoral and intolerable the acts of abuse committed against minors
At the same time it's important to recall that the guilty almost always say this sort of thing.
At the same time, it is important to recall that those who leap in with various counter-arguments be made cognisant of the (recent) history/back-story of the Catholic Church with regard to the rape of children and its cover-up and institutional corruption. If this seems like prejudice ... well: don't let your minions rape children and then cover it up, all over the planet for decades, and there probably won't be so much antipathy. Just a thought.
Whether Pell is guilty of raping children I don't know and don't know how I could know. Would I be surprised, if true? Absolutely not in the slightest. Whether Pell is guilty of being a disgusting waste of resources entirely aside from raping children, in my estimation, hell yes.
Memory temporarily fails but I think it was in
The God Delusion where Dawkins said that he hates the Catholic Church but hates unfairness more.
He has the advantage of me there: knowing what we know now I don't think unfairness to the Catholic Church is even possible.
