SYDNEY - Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, criticized outgoing Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, describing his historic resignation as destabilising and questioning his governance skills. Pell, Australia's representative at next month's secret conclave to elect a successor, said Benedict was a "brilliant teacher" but "government wasn't his strong point" in a candid interview on the eve of the pope's departure. "I think I prefer somebody who can lead the Church and pull it together a bit," Pell told commercial television. He pointed to the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal, in which Benedict's butler leaked secret papal memos reve...
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