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SYDNEY (OSV News) The Catholic Church in Sydney bid farewell to its former archbishop, Cardinal George Pell, in a funeral at times solemn, reverent, defiant and sorrowful, shot through with wry Australian humor, and attended by mourners from all walks of life.
The cardinal remained a sign of contradiction until the very end, with protesters shouts of George Pell, go to Hell clearly audible inside St. Mary’s Cathedral at several points, and the congregation bursting into spontaneous appl