The Prince

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>David Marr's explosive bestseller about George Pell now expanded and fully updated.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In March this year the nation's most powerful Catholic Cardinal George Pell was jailed for child sexual assault. his appeal failed- the man once in charge of the Vatican's finances would remain behind bars.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Prince</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> David Marr investigates Pell's career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power and aggressive in asserting the prerogatives of the Vatican. He charts Pell's response - as a man a priest an archbishop and a prince of the church - to the scandal that has engulfed the Catholic world- the sexual abuse of children.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This is the story of a cleric torn by the contest between his church and its victims and slow to realise that the Catholic Church cannot in the end escape secular scrutiny. Behind it all was Pell's own terrible secret which was uncovered and judged in a trial that convulsed the nation.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Prince</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a portrait of hypocrisy and ambition set against a backdrop of terrible suffering and an ancient institution in turmoil.</span></p>