I'm not surprised. Pell has been the darling of conservatives for decades, living a life of luxury and power first in Australia and more recently at the Vatican - they can't let a little thing like raping children get in the way of that. This is a miscarriage of justice!!! ... just ask the National Review (The Strange Case against Cardinal Pell).
I can't help thinking most Catholics just don't really care about sex abuse in the church. - it's become just sort of the cost of doing business.
For those few who might actually care about who Cardinal Pell has been and his involvement with child sex abuse, here's a past interview a few years ago with journalist David Marr on Australian TV about his essay on Pell, The Prince ...
Strange pic of Yoda laying on the orange kitchen table, looking out the window at the birds by the birdbath. She's not in focus, but somehow I still like it ...
Actor Peter Fonda (brother of Jane, son of Henry) has passed away today. He's probably most well known for a movie from 50 years ago, Easy Rider, which won the First Film Award (Prix de la première œuvre) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. I still remember seeing the movie at the theater. Here a kind of sad song from the film, Ballad of Easy Rider ...
a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Carol Danvers .... Brie Larson stars as Danvers, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law. Set in 1995, the story follows Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after Earth is caught in the center of a galactic conflict between two alien civilizations.
The movie was pretty fun and answered some questions, like how did Nick Fury lose his eye? The film comes between the last two Avengers movies and Captain Marvel figures into the last film, Endgame (which I haven't seen yet). It's probable that you need to be acquainted with the whole Avengers/Agents of Shield storyline to appreciate Captain Marvel, but maybe I'm wrong.
One of the interesting things about the movie was the inclusion of songs from the 90s. Here's the final song that comes with the end credits of the film, by the band of the wife of the late Kurt Cobain ...
