The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell; The Quarterly Essay by David Marr

Wow. This is everything you ever wanted to know about Pell, and in particular how and why the Catholic church is such a hotbed of paedophilia and has been covering it up for so many decades. David Marr has done his usual meticulous research and the essay is gripping reading. One terrifying quote: ‘ Forty years after the DLP collapsed under the weight of its own irrelevance, the Movement will have one man in the curia and another in Canberra. Pell is about to live the dream of every prince of the church: to be the spiritual adviser to a national leader.’