Australia's top court has ruled that Cardinal George Pell will be allowed a final chance to challenge his child sexual abuse convictions.
Pell was granted leave to appeal the verdict in the High Court of Australia.
The ex-Vatican treasurer is currently serving a six-year jail term for abusing two boys in a Melbourne cathedral in the 1990s.
He lost his first challenge against his convictions in August and has consistently maintained his innocence.
Pell is the most high-ranking Catholic official in the world to be convicted of child sexual abuse.
Last December, a jury unanimously found him guilty of sexually abusing two 13-year-old boys in St Patrick's Cathedral, when he was the city's archbishop.
Pell unsuccessfully challenged the verdict in Victoria's Court of Appeal in August, when a panel of three judges ruled against him 2-1.
[Source: BBC]
