The Persecution of George Pell

by Keith Windschuttle Quadrant Books, BalmainPaperback: 408 pagesPrice: AUD$39.95 Reviewed by Peter Westmore THE LONG CAMPAIGN TO ‘STITCH UP’ CARDINAL PELL Meticulously researched, this book by Keith Windschuttle, the editor of Quadrant magazine, is an exposé of what the author describes as a multi-faceted campaign over several years to fit up Cardinal George Pell for the crime of sexual abuse, to discredit the Catholic Church in the community and, more broadly, to diminish the influence of Christianity in public life. Windschuttle shows how the campaign to implicate Cardinal Pell in the Church’s sex-abuse crisis, which Cardinal Pell did more to…