Australian Cardinal George Pell is pictured during the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican on October 6, 2014. Photo: CNS Cardinal Pell’s 400 days in tough prisons in solitary can be seen as the best thing that happened to him, writes Fr Brendan Purcell When I was a philosophy lecturer at University College Dublin, our staff Newman group wanted to invite some notable figure or other to give a talk in the millennium year. We…
