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Pope Francis gave a funeral blessing to Cardinal George Pell on Saturday as revelations that he wrote an anonymous memo branding the current papacy a "catastrophe" hung in the air along with the incense.

The Australian cardinal who decried the papacy of Pope Francis as a “catastrophe” is receiving tributes, including from the pontiff himself, at his funeral in St. Peter's Basilica

The most senior Australian member of the Catholic clergy will be farewelled in a mass at the same Vatican church where former pope Benedict's funeral was held.

Australian Cardinal George Pell was lying in state on Friday, with funeral preparations overshadowed by revelations that he was the author of an anonymous memo that branded Pope Francis' pontificate a catastrophe.

Pell called out the Pope for staying silent on human rights issues in China, Russia, and Hong Kong

The Vatican will hold a funeral mass for Cardinal George Pell on Saturday. This is what we know about the service.

Cardinal George Pell will be honoured in a service delivered by Pope Francis this weekend, despite the pair's very different approaches to modern Catholicism.

The late conservative Australian Cardinal George Pell was the author of an anonymous memo condemning Pope Francis' papacy as a "catastrophe" where political correctness held sway while global wrongs were ignored, says the journalist who published it.

Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass on Saturday