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 ... loomed large in Sydney on Thursday. At one point, police outside St Mary's Cathedral intervened to separate angry mourners from chanting protesters.

Westboro Baptist Church*/ has shown up at many military funerals across the country to protest the nation's tolerance of homosexuality, and that group threatened to show up at Ashley's funeral ...