PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Newsworks
February 7, 2012
By Kevin McCorry
The funeral Mass for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua was celebrated Tuesday at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Center City Philadelphia.
Bevilacqua’s close friend and former aide, Monsignor Louis D’Addezio, delivered the memorial sermon. He cited the cardinal’s commitment to the most vulnerable in society — especially the young, the old and the sick.
He also mentioned the emotional toll that recent sex-abuse allegations had on Bevilacqua — noting the cardinal’s depression late in his life.
“These years have been years of suffering for so many — for all of us in the archdiocese,” he said. “Cardinal Bevilacqua did not escape that suffering.”
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