Update: Cardinal Pell

Disgraced Cardinal George Pell’s Lawyer Claims Abuse Was ‘Plain Vanilla Sexual Penetration’

Cardinal Pell was taken into custody today after his lawyer argued that what he did was just a "plain vanilla sexual penetration case where the child is not actively participating" and that Pell was "seized by some irresistible impulse". Meanwhile, conservative Catholics assert that Pell is innocent despite the unanimous jury verdict finding him guilty, and the Vatican has launched its own inquiry into his case, saying he should fight the verdict to the end, spending our pew dollars on an appeal. And the church wonders why no one trusts it to police itself.