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Australia's Cardinal Pell loses child sex abuse appeal

Disgraced Cardinal George Pell lost his appeal against child sex abuse convictions Wednesday, prompting relief from victims who fought to bring one of the Catholic Church's most powerful men to justice.A former Vatican treasurer, Pell had been trying to overturn the verdicts and six-year sentence for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys at a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s.The high-profile case pitted 78-year-old -- who previously helped elect Popes, was a trusted papal aide and was involved in the church's response to child sex abuse claims -- against a former choirboy now in his thirties.

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