Homage to Cardinal Pell on his 80th birthday (First Things)

Cardinal George Pell celebrates his 80th birthday today (June 8), and his age now prevents him from holding Vatican offices or participating in a papal conclave. But the influence of the Australian prelate remains substantial—enhanced by his endurance of a patently unjust prison sentence. Father Raymond de Souza, writing in First Things, pays tribute to the cardinal as a “white martyr.”