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Convicted paedophile cardinal George Pell has an appeal against his child sex abuse charges rejected by an Australian court. Once the Vatican's third-ranking official, 78-year-old Pell was sentenced this year to six years in jail for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys at a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s. SOUNDBITE
Protesters boo and chant 'go to hell Pell' as the casket of late Australian cardinal George Pell leaves St Mary's Cathedral. Pell continues to divide opinion in Australia with supporters dubbing him a "saint for our times", while campaigners accuse him of protecting paedophile priests while a senior Church official. IMAGES
Mass is held at Melbourne's cathedral after Cardinal George Pell died in Rome aged 81, Pell was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia. Pell died of complications related to a hip surgery he had undergone in a Rome hospital on Tuesday, according to the Vatican's official news website. IMAGES
Cardinal George Pell lands at Fiumicino airport in Rome from Australia for the first time since being jailed -- and then acquitted -- on child sex abuse charges. IMAGES
Cardinal George Pell arrives at an Australian court. The third-ranking official in the Vatican, has been found guilty of child sex crimes in Australia, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted for child sexual abuse. IMAGES