PHILADELPHIA (PA)
National Catholic Reporter
Mar. 08, 2012
By Matthew Gambino, Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA — Suspicion surrounding the death of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, former archbishop of Philadelphia, has been laid to rest with a Thursday coroner’s report that he died of natural causes Jan. 31 at St. Charles Seminary in Wynnewood.
“Elderly people with pre-existent natural disease often die quite suddenly,” Montgomery County Coroner Walter I. Hofman said Thursday at news conference at his office in Norristown.
Bevilacqua, 88, had been living at the seminary since his retirement in 2003.
Hofman said the cardinal had received excellent care for prostate cancer and dementia, and toxicology tests revealed normal levels of medications to treat the conditions.
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