Bernard Law quit as archbishop of Boston in 2002 after criticism of his handling of paedophile priests but although a pariah in the US he was honoured in RomeWhen Cardinal Bernard Law was forced under public pressure to resign as archbishop of Boston in 2002,he was considered a pariah within the ranks of the American Catholic church.
In an editorial at the time, the Boston Globe – which had helped bring him down by exposing how the archdiocese had covered up years of sexual abuse by paedophile priests – said that Law had become the “central figure in a scandal of criminal abuse, or denial,payoff and coverup that resonates around the world”.
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Source: theguardian.com