Cardinal Pell

[blamebrampton]

The most senior Australian Catholic is currently appearing before our Royal Commission on child sex abuse via video link from Rome. He has been declared too ill to travel from the Vatican to Melbourne by his private doctor, despite having flown out to Australia for a private function a few weeks before he was last due to appear.

So Tim Minchin, one of our better songwriters has penned the following little ditty about the situation. Miranda Devine, a 'journalist' in one of the Murdoch papers has complained that this song is intolerable. But she's been totally silent on the subject of Pell at the very least turning an inexcusable blind eye to child rape during his career. Odd sense of priorities.

Subsequently, I am mentioning this song every chance I get. It's a beauty.

Comments

[moonflower-rose.livejournal.com]

<3 Tim

You've probably seen the response to Devine from Clare Linane by now?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes. It was very well put.

I actually think that people like Devine are worse than Pell in some ways. While the cover-ups, contraditions and minimisations that occurred on his watch were wholly abhorrent, you could at least see his unwillingess to buy into the scope of the awfulness as a product of a more ignorant time. Devine has no excuse.

[athgarvan.livejournal.com]

Why does Pell need to go - he is already judged and condemned there!!!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Because he is answerable to the law.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

You have to admire a man who can put vacuity in a song

[khalulu]

Strange priorities indeed. Great song.

[lokifan]

That was great. It feels weird to be all YAY TIM MINCHIN'S FUNNY TOPICAL SONGS on this particular topic, but still, yay for pushback and trying to get Pell held accountable.

[ellie-nor.livejournal.com]

Tim Minchin is a class act. ♥