Commentary
“I hope he rots in hell!” shouted the voice on the phone.
Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney reads the Opening Prayer during the Opening Mass of Welcome of World Youth Day Sydney 2008 at Barangaroo on July 15, 2008. World Youth Day via Getty Images
David Daintree
Author
David Daintree is director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Tasmania, Australia. He has a background in classics and teaches Late and Medieval Latin. Mr. Daintree was a visiting professor at the universities of Siena and Venice, and a visiting scholar at the University of Manitoba. He served as president of Campion College from 2008 to 2012. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Australia on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
