PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Catholic News Service
By Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, retired archbishop of Philadelphia, died Jan. 31 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where he resided.
According to the Philadelphia Archdiocese, he died in his sleep at 9:15 p.m. He was 88.
Cardinal Bevilacqua headed the archdiocese from February 1988 to October 2003. Funeral arrangements were pending. …
Just a day before his death a Philadelphia judge ruled that Cardinal Bevilacqua, who suffered from dementia, was competent and could be become a witness in the upcoming trial of a Philadelphia priest, Msgr. William J. Lynn. The priest is accused of having failed to protect children from two priests who were under his direction when he served as secretary of the clergy.
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