The former Vatican number three was sentenced in March to six years in prison for sexually assaulting two choirboys in the 1990s.
Judges will rule next week on Australian Cardinal George Pell's appeal against his conviction on multiple child sex abuse charges, court officials announced Thursday.
The judges, who will give their verdict on August 21, can decide to reject the appeal, order a retrial or acquit Pell, the Catholic Church's most senior convicted child molester. They cast doubt on everything from the timing of the incident following Sunday services to whether he would have been able to move his cumbersome archbishop's robes easily enough to commit the assaults.
Since his conviction, Pell has been removed as the Vatican finance chief and lost his place in the so-called C9 Council of Cardinals that is effectively the pope's cabinet and inner circle of advisers. Australian authorities are also investigating whether Pell broke prison rules after a letter he wrote to conservative supporters appeared online.
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