'It's coming': A bombshell report about Cardinal George Pell will FINALLY be released after key pages were kept secret during his sex assault trial Conviction of Cardinal George Pell paves the way for release of redacted report Australian priest is highest ranking Catholic to be convicted of child abuse More than 60 pages of royal commission report were blanked out in 2017 The pages were blacked out so not to 'prejudice future criminal proceedings' The report will likely be released after Cardinal Pell's legal process is finalised By Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:29 GMT, 12 March 2019 | Updated: 23:30 GMT, 12 March 2019 Viewcomments The conviction of Cardinal George Pell paves the way for blanked out pages from the child abuse royal commission report to be released. The Royal Commission redacted more than 60 pages of its 2017 final report about the Ballarat diocese, at least some of which is expected to relate to Pell. Pell, 77, grew up in the regional Victorian city and was a senior figure in the church there for decades. The mystery pages are speculated to relate to what was done about paedophile priests in the diocese where Pell was in a position of power. D-day: Cardinal George Pell will learn his fate at sentencing on Wednesday Protesters call for justice outside Cardinal Pell's sentencing in Melbourne on Wednesday The redactions were made so 'current or future civil or criminal proceedings' were not prejudiced. Court watchers have foreshadowed that the report will be released in the near future and the royal commission always expected the unredacted report to be published. Louise Milligan, author of a Pell about book, tweeted: 'All of the Royal Commission's final report as concerns Pell has been redacted while his trial was running. 'Pages and pages of blacked out stuff. It's coming'. Daily Mail Australia understands the pages are unlikely to be released until after Pell has exhausted his appeal options. The federal Attorney-General's department said in a statement that unredacted parts of the royal commission report would not be released until state prosecutors deemed that the legal process was finalised. A redacted passage from the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse report A tweet from Louise Milligan, author of Cardinal, a landmark book about Pell Pell is today being sentenced to a likely term of imprisonment after he was convicted of five charges of rape and molestation involving two boys, in late 1996 and early 1997. He was born in Ballarat in 1941 and rose to become one of Pope Francis's closest advisors and Vatican treasurer. He has since been dumped from that role after becoming the highest ranking Catholic priest in the world to be convicted of sex abuse charges. Pell's appeal is listed to face court in June. His lawyers will argue grounds including that the verdict was 'unreasonable or unsafe.' Another ground of appeal will involve an argument that the jury was not allowed to watch an animated video in the defence's closing remarks. The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions did not respond to a request for comment. GEORGE PELL STATEMENT FROM FEDERAL ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPT 'Unredacted reports of the Royal Commission cannot be released until the relevant state or territory authorities have confirmed that all relevant legal matters have been finalised. 'The Attorney-General's Department is administratively responsible for the publication process. 'The process and timing of the release of the unredacted reports is a decision for Government. 'Redactions were the responsibility of the Royal Commission. 'The Royal Commission indicated that, consistent with the terms of reference, it was required to ensure that its work does not prejudice current or future criminal or civil proceedings. 'The Royal Commission also indicated its expectation that redacted reports would be made available to the public at a later date.' Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility