Cardinal George Pell on Final Journey Home to Australia

Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher conducts a Solemn Pontifical Requiem mass to pay homage to Cardinal George Pell at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, on Jan. 12, 2023. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

Cardinal George Pell has been remembered as a man who experienced great suffering at a requiem mass at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, where Pope Francis gave the final blessing.

Cardinal Pell was farewelled on Saturday at the Vatican in the same church where he was ordained in 1966 and where Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral was held earlier this month.