Written by Tess Livingstone

Published by Ignatius Press 2005, Paperback, 491 pages.

In recent decades there have been tensions within the Catholic Church between those who have embraced Vatican II while honoring her rich traditions and those who want to drain her teaching and worship of much of their meaning. This is the story of part of that struggle told through the life of George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, and the leading Churchman “down under”. Cardinal Pell has spent much of his adult life battling attempts to “trivialize Jesus Christ”.

This is the first book about today’s best-known and most controversial leaders of Australia’s Catholics. Author Tess Livingstone visited Rome and Oxford (both where he was brilliant student) and interviewed over fifty people, including many of Cardinal Pell’s critics, in researching her book. It contains a wealth of information about Pell that will surprise both his enemies and his supporters.