# Oh poor George (Cardinal Pell)...might have been easier to come home!

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**Created:** [February 17, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-poor-george-cardinal-pell-might-have-been-easier-to-come-home/746315 "2016-02-17T03:42:16Z")
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#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-poor-george-cardinal-pell-might-have-been-easier-to-come-home/746315/150 "2016-03-02T20:47:19Z")

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> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Well, seeing as we’re nit-picking and dancing around semantics, I’ll play along too.
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> You are right, the Royal Commission will not charge Pell with anything. It is not within their powers to do so. However, when their final report is released (some time early 2018 I’ll guess) they can certainly recommend that charges be laid. And RC’s are not some toothless tiger…their advisories are taken EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY here in Aus, and will be followed.
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> Given Pell’s testimony to date, and the comments of the RC (which I have been watching live and not relying upon the media to feed me) I believe it is highly unlikely that Pell will escape charges in the future.

I disagree. I predict that Pell will not be criminally charged, period.

If I am right, and by, say, April 2018, no Australian criminal charges have been leveled against Pell, will you concede I understand this process better than you do?

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