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...central figure, Jean Cardinal Daniélou, was an internationally famous Jesuit theologian, a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, and an honored "immortal" of the French Academy. After he died of an aneurysm one afternoon in May, supposedly on the street, Daniélou, 69, was lavishly eulogized by the French episcopacy, the Jesuit Superior General and the Vatican...
Then rumors began appearing that Daniélou had died in the apartment of a young blonde married woman named Santoni, who reportedly works in a cabaret. The rumors proved to be true. It also turned out that the French Catholic heirarchy and French Jesuit headquarters had tried to hush up the circumstances surrounding Daniélou's death, claiming he had died outside the house of "friends." The satirical anticlerical weekly Le Canard Enchainé exposed the event in a story full of damning innuendoes. Two weeks ago, Le Monde, France's most prestigious newspaper, confirmed that...
...Figaro, La Croix and other defenders of Daniélou sharply challenged Canard's suggestion that Daniélou had died in flagrante delicto. The French episcopacy denounced the "grave insinuations" concerning the cardinal's death, insisting that "his apostolate extended to the most diverse realms, often to the most disreputable and downtrodden persons both inside and outside the church...
Unusual Circles. Old colleagues agreed that Daniélou had long been a clerical bohemian who traveled in unusual circles. Even after he turned theologically conservative a few years before becoming a cardinal in 1969, he remained a political and social progressive, and something of a chaplain to the demimonde. The cardinal was "profoundly compassionate," explained Fellow Jesuit Xavier Tilliette. If he also "ran risks to the point of imprudence," he was only following "the example of the Divine Master, [who] ate and drank as a friend of publicans and sinners...
...woman Daniélou visited has remained as mysterious as the circumstances of his death. Her first name is unknown, though Canard calls her Mini. Only the gossipmongering scandal sheet Le Meilleur claimed to have talked with Mme. Santoni, who insisted that the cardinal's visit was entirely platonic. "He was fully dressed," she reportedly told the paper. "[He] collapsed after climbing the four stories to my flat." She seemed unimpressed by all the furor: "Too much fuss is being made about this quite unimportant affair...