His Eminence the Most Reverend Monsignor George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Sydney, Australia, has been appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of Justice of the Order.

Cardinal George Pell was born in Ballarat, on June 8th 1941, and was educated in that city at Loreto Convent and St Patrick's College. He studied for the priesthood at Corpus Christi College, Werribee, and Propaganda Fide College, Rome, and was ordained a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Ballarat by Cardinal Agagianian in St Peter's Basilica, Rome, on December 16th 1966.

On May 21st 1987 he was ordained an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne and Titular Bishop of Scala by Archbishop Sir Frank Little in St Patrick's Cathedral.

On July 16th 1996 Pope John Paul II announced Cardinal Pell's appointment as seventh Metropolitan Archbishop of Melbourne. He was installed as Archbishop on August 16th 1996 in a ceremony at the Exhibition Buildings, and received the Pallium from the Pope at St Peter's in Rome on the feast of Sts Peter and Paul, June 29th 1997.

Il giorno di sabato 11 aprile, una missione costantiniana, della Delegazione della Tuscia e Sabina, si è recata in Abruzzo per portare aiuti di vario genere alle popolazioni colpite dal rovinoso sisma.

I Confratelli Francesco Turco e Pietro Cavallaro, accompagnati dal Sindaco di Civitavecchia, Giovanni Moscherini, e da un gruppo di volontari, hanno raggiunto non senza difficoltà i Comuni di Onna e Prata d’Ansidonia, tra i più disastrati della provincia de L’Aquila, consegnando materiale per oltre 100.000,00 (centomila) euro di valore.