{"id":84209,"date":"2023-01-11T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=84209"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:57:22","slug":"cardinal-george-pell-has-died-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/cardinal-george-pell-has-died-aged-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal George Pell Has Died Aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian Cardinal George Pell has died at the age of 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/fiveaa-summer-sports-show-10-january-2022-1\/embed\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"FIVEAA Summer Sports Show Podcast - 10 January 2022\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING | Cardinal George Pell passed away at 20:50 (Rome local time) today after suffering cardiac arrest at the age of 81. <br><br>May he rest in peace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u97CvHIrb8\">pic.twitter.com\/u97CvHIrb8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnalive\/status\/1612941650128670720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/cardinal-george-pell-dies-at-the-age-of-81-reports-20230111-p5cbqk.html?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1673390552\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> says it has confirmed reports from several Catholic media outlets on Wednesday morning that the cardinal has passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pell is believed to have died following complications from a hip replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vatican correspondent Colm Flynn was among the first to report the death online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve just spoken to his household and can confirm the sad news of the passing of Cardinal George Pell at the age of 81,\u201d the EWTN News Vatican posted on Twitter. \u201cMay he rest in peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cardinal George Pell dies at the age of 81<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eE6lLS1TwM\">https:\/\/t.co\/eE6lLS1TwM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smh\/status\/1612943001940025345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Cardinal George Pell has died at the age of 81. The Sydney Morning Herald says it has confirmed reports from several Catholic media outlets on Wednesday morning that the cardinal has passed away. According to the paper: Pell is believed to have died following complications from a hip replacement. Vatican correspondent Colm Flynn was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":84211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-84209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cardinal George Pell Has Died Aged 81 - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/cardinal-george-pell-has-died-aged-81\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardinal George Pell Has Died Aged 81\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian Cardinal George Pell has died at the age of 81. 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