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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Philip Pullella

Pell wrote secret memo calling Francis' papacy 'catastrophe' - journalist

FILE PHOTO: Cardinal George Pell attends a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, October 12, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

The late conservative Australian Cardinal George Pell was the author of an anonymous memo condemning Pope Francis' papacy as a "catastrophe" where political correctness held sway while global wrongs were ignored, says the journalist who published it.

Released last year under the pseudonym "Demos" - Greek for populace - the document accuses the pope of silence on moral issues, including the German Catholic Church's openness to the LGBTQ community, women priests and communion for the divorced.

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