Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81 in Rome
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Australian has died of heart complications after hip surgery, church leaders confirm
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Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most senior Catholic who was found guilty and then acquitted of child sexual abuse in recent years, has died in Vatican City aged 81.
Pell, the former archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney, died on Tuesday evening after suffering a cardiac arrest following hip surgery in Rome.
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