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...RESIGNED. BERNARD LAW, 71, Cardinal of the Boston Archdio-cese; as the city's archbishop following a meeting with Pope John Paul II in the Vatican; in Rome. Law is the highest-ranking Catholic leader to step down in the wake of a series of sex scandals that have plagued the church...
Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 last Friday in the wake of public outrage that Boston’s Roman Catholic archbishop had repeatedly allowed priests accused of child molestation to continue to work for the Church...
Orfield was one of nine Catholic Harvard professors who wrote a letter calling for Law’s resignation last March, which Orfield said was among the first major public statements asking the archbishop to step down...
Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely ’60 said that although he agreed with Gomes that the Catholic community should not hold a grudge against Law, he disagreed with Gomes’ view that the press had focused too much blame on the archbishop...
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes published an op-ed in last Friday’s Boston Globe, written prior to the announcement of Law’s resignation, praising the embattled archbishop and calling for forgiveness...