Most senior Catholic cleric found guilty of child abuse granted final chance to overturn conviction

The most senior Catholic official to have been found guilty of sexually abusing children has been granted leave to appeal by Australia’s highest court.The decision allows Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s former finance minister, a final chance at overturning his convictions for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral in the late 1990s.