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The Vatican prefers to do things quietly. So, sometimes, did Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law. For years, when sexually abusive clergymen were brought to his attention, he quietly transferred them from one parish to another. By last April, as the scandal over pedophile priests escalated, Law, the most powerful of...
RESIGNED. BERNARD CARDINAL LAW, 71, as Archbishop of Boston; over his protection of priests accused of sexual abuse; after a meeting with Pope John Paul II; in Rome. (See page 33.)
The new leadership of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Association was named Sunday at a delicate time for a Church coping with the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53.
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.
“The Cardinal is not going to have the same authority anymore,” Orfield said.