MELBOURNE—Lawyers for former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell on Sept. 17 filed an appeal to Australia’s High Court in a final bid to overturn his conviction for sexually abusing two 13-year-old choir boys, the High Court said.
Pell is seeking leave to appeal the state of Victoria’s Court of Appeal ruling which upheld his conviction on five charges of abusing the boys at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the late 1990s when he was archbishop of Melbourne.
