But there were lay experts who said that it was all a fake that no doctor had been able to lay a hand on Earl to examine him.
Many in the pews were priests and members of religious orders, but many were lay people active in their churches who had received the two tickets allotted to each parish for the event.
But his former general manager, Paolo Cipriani, said in an interview published on Sunday that there were no numbered accounts at the Vatican bank and the only Italians, apart from priests, monks and nuns, who banked with the IOR were lay employees or pensioners of the Holy See.
Sergio Angelini, Castiglione del Lago, Italy Blow the sacred trumpet As Sheila Rowbotham notes in her review of Bill Douglas's film Comrades ("A new moral world", 18 July), the Tolpuddle martyrs were members of their local Methodist church and two were lay preachers.
The reports said a total of nine men at the orphanage, some of them members of the Christian Brothers and others of whom were lay employees, were convicted in 1989 of physical and sexual abuse at the orphanage after dozens of the boys filed complaints.
"There is a recognition that the PCC is too much under the influence of serving editors and one way to restore trust would be to have a newly constituted PCC where the majority of people taking decisions were lay members who are not serving editors".
