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Chicago Sun-Times reporters Bill Clements and Gene Mustain spent 18 months in the early 1980s investigating alleged the financial shenanigans of Cardinal John Patrick Cody, then archbishop of Chicago. “The Cody matter got to Dad in a personal way more than any story he had ever worked on — and he had been involved in a lot of difficult, controversial stories,” writes Clements’ son, Bill. “He died in August 1983 of an apparent heart attack at age 50, and my family believes working on the Cody investigation hastened Dad’s death. …Dad remained a practicing Roman Catholic through his last years, and he had faith in the church, just as he had faith in the tenets of sound investigative reporting. When the two faiths came in conflict, he sided with openness.”
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