The lifting of the court imposed gag order followed the decision by local prosecutors to drop further charges related to Pell's time as a priest in the 1970s. With the proposed second trial cancelled, Chief Judge Peter Kidd lifted the reporting restrictions.
Pell is expected to be sentenced on Wednesday and is appealing the conviction.
The Vatican statement followed a similar release by Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Melbourne, president of the Australian Bishops' Conference.
"The bishops [of Australia] agree that everyone should be equal under the law, and we respect the Australian legal system. The same legal system that delivered the verdict will consider the appeal that the Cardinal's legal team has lodged. Our hope, at all times, is that through this process, justice will be served," Coleridge wrote.
"In the meantime, we pray for all those who have been abused and their loved ones, and we commit ourselves anew to doing everything possible to ensure that the Church is a safe place for all, especially the young and the vulnerable."
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