Australian Cardinal jailed six years for abusing boys.

Cardinal Pell is the most senior member of the Roman Catholic Church ever jailed for such a crime (Image: Max Walden/Al Jazeera)

Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for the sexual abuse of two boys in 1996 in a Melbourne cathedral.

Pell – once the Vatican’s chief financial officer and an adviser to Pope Francis – is the…