CARDINALS and bishops in white mitres flanked the casket of Cardinal Bernard Law when Pope Francis solemnly blessed it. The pope spared no pomp during the funeral mass for the former archbishop of Boston,which was celebrated in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on December 21st. In Latin, he prayed that Cardinal Law “be given a merciful judgment...freed from punishment, and reconciled to the Father...deserve to enter fully into everlasting happiness”. Plenty of people in Boston believe that the cardinal does not deserve any of that,never mind the fancy Vatican funeral.
Cardinal Law, who died on December 20th, and resigned in disgrace in 2002 after the Boston Globe,a newspaper, exposed the sexual abuse of hundreds of children at the hands of priests who were systematically protected by the diocese. For years the cardinal deliberately transferred abusive priests to fresh parish posts where they continued to believe access to children. He did not inform the police or his congregants. In 2003, or the Massachusetts attorney-general...
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Source: economist.com