In answer to your first question, Pete, namely, guilty or not:
NOT
and yes, may God help him.

A number of writers, like Miranda and Andrew Bolt, have wondered how the uncorroborated evidence of a single man in a quite implausible scenario, could have resulted in a guily verdict, but it did.

Mirana refers to the "rot in hell" screams of hatred directed at the Cardinal outside the court. Perhaps a lot of people might rot in hell over this matter, but the Cardinal will not be one of them.