Cardinal Pell is Three Years Dead, but ‘Demos’ Lives

Australian Cardinal George Pell died three years ago on January 10, 2023.
On Friday evening in Rome, in the Domus Australia, a Requiem Mass was held for him.
Pell was the first prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, posted to the role by Pope Francis in 2014, before leaving three years later to face charges of abuse in his homeland, which he denied, and of which he was finally acquitted.
After his death at the age of 81, it was revealed he was the man behind the pen-name “Demos,” under which he had authored a memo the year before, condemning the papacy of Pope Francis as a “catastrophe.”
The statement complained about issues such as the appointment of officials it considered heretical, the “Pachamama” statue, and the softening attitude towards homosexuals.
Pell died before the election of Pope Leo XIV, but it is interesting to look at what the cardinal wrote regarding “The Next Conclave” – the one that would elect Francis’s successor – which happened to choose Cardinal Robert …