12 Australian news outlets have pleaded guilty to contempt of court after their coverage of the Cardinal Pell framing in 2018.
As part of the guilty plea deal, 15 individual journalists have had charges against them dropped.
The list of news outlets included Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. News Corp Australia and Nine Entertainment were also included.
It is likely that they may now be be fined a combined total of millions as punishment, since their contempt of court jeopardised potential other legal proceedings.
Cardinal George Pell had travelled to Australia to finally clear his name from allegations, not having to as a citizen of the Vatican, yet he ended up being framed in a conspiracy between police, journalists and some suspect corrupt figures in the Vatican who were angry at his investigations into missing money there.
Disgraced journalist Louise Milligan has still refused to apologise to Cardinal Pell for her best selling fiction books about Pell which she presented as fact in order to slander him.
The entire case made Australia a laughing stock on the world stage, it was evident from the beginning that a concerted effort had been made to jail Pell on phony charges but Australian anti Catholicism is so rampant that Pell was jailed before eventually being released at Easter last year.