Vatican could try Pell under Church law

Updated August 21 2019 - 10:33pm, first published 10:27pm
George Pell's appeal against his child abuse conviction has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.
George Pell's appeal against his child abuse conviction has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.

The Vatican says it will let George Pell exhaust all legal avenues of appeal against his sexual abuse convictions in Australia before taking up his case in its own canon law investigation.