Pell is an apologist for the worlds second largest corporation that has been associated with so much death and suffering over the last two thousand years. He is quite the revolting product.

You will not find one fundamentalist who thinks that “to pray that mosques, Hindu and Buddhist temples and even Masonic temples be torn down” is a wish or a prayer to be taken literally. It is a metaphor. Why not stick to what you know.

In fact, Pell might be a hypocrite, but he is spot on when he talks of a cowed marketplace of ideas where criticism of Islam is too scary to be acted on. Look at all those wimps, including Christians, who would not stand up for free speech alongside Salman Rushdie after the publications of the “The Satanic Verses”.

It is a loathsome creed that would threaten so many writers, translators and editors. Read “Why I am not a Muslim”, which was written after seeing so few Christians or Muslims rush to the defence of Salman Rushdie at this time.

I seem to recall when I was a child, that the eating of meat on Friday; babies not baptized etc would bring forth eternal damnation - no hope of redemption! The attending of civil marriage services is still a crime of great proportions, and the ‘wanton act’ of standing up in defence of same sex couples, championing against racism are ‘crimes’ that can bring about a priest’s sacking?(Fr Kennedy, St Mary’s, Brisbane).

Of course, if you’re a pair of destraught parents who’ve lost one adult daughter (21)to suicide and another is in a deep depression due to their rapes by a priest when they were 5 and 6, then the catholic church under the stewardship of one Cardinal Pell won’t even allow you within a bull’s roar of the pontiff! Those suffering years of rejection, depression and often attempted suicides weren’t allowed anywhere near the last Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral during World Youth Week? Not quite the people that you want mingling with the chosen ones given 1st class seating! Tarnished ‘goods’ was the attitude!

When the Catholic Church still treats the victims(too many of them) as though they committed some heinous crime, George Pell should hide his counsel re criticism of any other religious beliefs. They still don’t get it do they? Sexual assault is a crime, and the perpetrators are criminals! The hypocricy begs belief! No wonder the number of priests are dwindling each year. Who’d want to be involved with such inhumane and unjust bigots!