# Pell-Mell, aw, hell

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 12, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pell-mell-aw-hell/838568 "2019-08-12T18:10:47Z")
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### Author: ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pell-mell-aw-hell/838568/14 "2019-08-13T00:23:00Z")

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I checked the original thread. Here is Bricker’s prediction.

> [@Oh poor George (Cardinal Pell)...might have been easier to come home!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-poor-george-cardinal-pell-might-have-been-easier-to-come-home/746315/150):
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> I disagree. I predict that Pell will not be criminally charged, period.
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> 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?

And here are the charges being announced.

> [@Oh poor George (Cardinal Pell)...might have been easier to come home!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-poor-george-cardinal-pell-might-have-been-easier-to-come-home/746315/383):
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> Updating this thread:
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> [George Pell: Cardinal committed to stand trial on multiple historical sexual assault charges](https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/cardinal-george-pell-to-stand-trial-on-historical-sex-assault-charges-20180501-p4zckv.html)

Did you catch the date on Past Tense’s post? May 1, 2018.

Hmmm. That’s… uncanny.

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