Cardinal Pell, who was in charge of Vatican finances between 2014 and 2019, was jailed in Australia for child sexual abuse in 2019 but vigorously maintained his innocence and had his convictions quashed more than a year later.
But the High Court overturned both these findings, ruling that "acting rationally on the whole of the evidence, [the jury] ought to have entertained a doubt as to the applicant's guilt with respect to each of the offences for which he was convicted".
Some of Australia's most well-known newspapers, websites and radio stations were slugged more than $1 million in fines for being in contempt of court during the child sex abuse trial.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/cardinal-george-pell-dies-vatican-aged-81/101843096