Mourners paid their respects to Cardinal George Pell who lay in state in a Sydney cathedral on Wednesday as police sought a court order to prevent protesters from disrupting his funeral.

At Cardinal George Pell's funeral in Australia on Thursday ... Those allegations loomed large in Sydney on Thursday. At one point, police outside St Mary's Cathedral intervened to separate ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating outside the funeral of Cardinal George Pell in Sydney due to public safety concerns.