The crowd arrives for the funeral Mass of Australian Cardinal George Pell at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney February 2, 2023. Photo: OSV News/Giovanni Portelli, The Catholic Weekly 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 humour, 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…
