Cardinal George Pell named Time Magazine Coward of the Year A great honour and responsibility.

The editor of the magazine was apparently confident that the most cowardly thing that’s going to happen this year has already happened.

Cardinal George Pell, the leader of the Australian chapter of the Catholic church, outright refused to travel back Down Under to front a royal commission into child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Blaming his ill health for not being able to travel, a team of world-class doctors and surgeons offered to escort the man during his transit back to Australia. Read