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Argentine Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, former head of the Vatican congregation for religious and council for the laity, is pictured in a photo from 1998, the year he died. Pope Francis on Feb. 18 declared him to be "venerable." (CNS/Michael Edrington)

Cardinal Pironio, now on sainthood path, received money from notorious abuser Maciel

The late Cardinal Eduardo Pironio apparently took money from Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, disgraced founder of the Legionaries of Christ. Should that figure into the case for Pironio's sainthood?

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