But was he completely innocent or get off on technicality? Did he completely not know about any of this? Anything less, as far as I’m concerned, he is still guilty as is others in the church.
It was thrown out 7 to 0.
You cannot get more unanimous than that.
Now, some years since, he passed away from a cardiac arrest while recovering from hip surgery.
And someone at the Vatican was so vindictive that they broke his nose, failed to complete the embalming process, and abused his corpse so much that they couldn’t have an open casket.
There’s only one kind of folks who are so vindictive that they would abuse a dead man’s body.
He was the victim of yellow journalism by an ABC reporter named Louise Milligan who had written a book called Cardinal. Not sure who gave her the book deal.