What I was really after was written evidence of the Vatican, in its own penmanship, confronting this supposed network—something that would indicate the past use of drugs in black and white. I had to identify an individual heretic whom I knew the Vatican had hunted down and snuffed out. He or she had to be particularly famous, high-profile enough to have grabbed the Church’s attention in the first place. And then historically significant enough for the Vatican to have retained a record of the scandal. No easy task. But one obvious figure kept dancing through my head. The occult wizard I’d been
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