Cardinal George Pell's appeal against his prison sentence has been dismissed by Victoria's Court of Appeal in Melbourne and he will remain in prison.
Pell was convicted in December of five charges over the rape of one 13-year-old choirboy and sexual assault of another at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne in 1996.
The bench of three judges have handed down their decision.
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