The photograph was striking. There
was George Pell, then an auxiliary bishop, walking side-by-side into
court with Gerald Ridsdale, the man later found to be Australia's worst
paedophile priest.
The decision by
Cardinal Pell, now a Vatican cardinal, to support his former housemate
that day in 1993 led to an image that has lived on in infamy in
Australia for more than two decades, creating an image of a man who
appeared to be more concerned with protecting the church than its flock.
