Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by George Pell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian priest George Pell.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

George Pell is an Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as the inaugural prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy between 2014 and 2019, and was a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers between 2013 and 2018. Ordained a priest in 1966 and bishop in 1987, he was made a cardinal in 2003. Pell served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney (2001–2014), the seventh Archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne (1987–1996). He has also been an author, columnist and public speaker. Since 1996, Pell has maintained a high public profile on a wide range of issues, while retaining an adherence to Catholic orthodoxy.

Australian - Priest | Born: June 8, 1941

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Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

George Pell

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

George Pell

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

George Pell

There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

George Pell

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

George Pell

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

George Pell

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

George Pell