Cardinal Maurice Piat, Bishop of Port-Louis in Mauritius since 1993, turns 80.
For the first time, a cardinal will stand trial before a Vatican tribunal of laypersons.
The College of Cardinals falls to 219 members.
“He was always a man of the Church, but at the same time very free, in the sense that he didn’t feel burdened by Church norms. Instead he seemed liberated by them.” That’s how Fr. Alejandro Moral Antón remembers him.
