'Catholic Mafia': How George Pell won over Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch and George Pell
Murdoch's Newscorp and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, are so invested in how George Pell should be remembered. Why do you think his newspapers editors actually care? Probably a few things. I mean, Pell was, you know, leading figure in the culture wars. He was very conservative about homosexuality and abortion and things like that. And back in 1998, the Roman Catholic diocese of Los Angeles gave Rupert Murdoch a papal knighthood.
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