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Cardinal Bernard Law, Figure in Church Sex Scandal, Dies

Law was criticized heavily for protecting priests accused of molesting children

Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 13:15 MJA Uncategorized 17

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A key figure of the child sexual abuse scandal that marred the Catholic Church in Boston has died.

Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as archbishop in 2002 amid the investigation into the abuse of children in the Boston archdiocese, died Tuesday at 86, according to a high-ranking source within the Catholic Church. He passed away at a hospital in Rome after an illness.

Following his resignation, Law remained with the church. Facing potential criminal charges in the U.S., in 2004, Law was called to Rome and given a parish to lead, which he did until his retirement in 2011.

“The cardinal had many defenders at the time. I think his passing will be greeted, by most people, with a bit of the shrug of the shoulders,” Walter Robinson, the former head of the Boston Globe Spotlight team that uncovered the depth of the scandal, told NBC Boston. “The announcement of his death, inevitably, is going to remind people of a terribly horrific, sad moment in the history of the American church, of which he became the emblematic figure.”

Law was criticized heavily for protecting priests accused of molesting children. Rev. John Geoghan, ultimately convicted of abusing more than 130 boys, was allowed to transfer to a new parish, the allegations against him and other priests kept in secret files.

The archbishop admitted that he was aware of the allegations aginst Geoghan, but still approved his transfer. He apologized publicly a year later to Geoghan’s victims.

Geoghan was removed from the priesthood in 1998. In 2002, he was sentenced to nine to 10 years in prison. One year in, he was murdered behind bars.  read more 

17 Comments on Cardinal Bernard Law, Figure in Church Sex Scandal, Dies

  3. I read somewhere that he will be given a Cardinal’s funeral which I presume is more of a state like ceremony. I hope that’s wrong. The best he should get is a simple funeral and that’s in recognition that he led a small parish in his latter life and perhaps atoned somewhat for his crimes.

  14. 🔥 HERE IS YOUR W.T.F. SUMMARY: 🔥

    Cardinal Bernard Law HELPED HIDE CHILD MOLESTER Rev. John Geoghan to a new parish until he eventually was sodomized to death in prison (let’s hope). Law resigned in disgrace in 2002, BUT WAIT! he was also HIDDEN away in Rome, rewarded with a parish for 7 years, and spent the last 6 in a comfortable retirement. And let’s hope he also was sodomized to death in one of those now famous Vatican gay coke orgies.

    So the CHURCH CULT known for:
    ⏺ Military General Popes.
    ⏺ Torturing heretics in dungeons.
    ⏺ Accepting bribes for indulgences.
    ⏺ Declaring violent jihad on those who translated the Bible into English. (Wycliffe)
    ⏺ Rampant homosexuality problem.
    ⏺ Punishing scientists.
    ⏺ Nazi-enablers.
    ⏺ Child rapists.
    ⏺ Sit on $15 billion in CASH while people starve to death.
    ⏺ History of hiding child rapists.

    –WHY DO THEY STILL HAVE FOLLOWERS? Is this CULT really that powerful?

    Catholics! Convert to Christianity!

  17. A Christmas present for my aunt and uncle. My uncle is battling cancer and this is probably his last Christmas. One of their sons, a cousin obviously, was the one who broke the whole Jim Talbot case open here in Maine. My aunt was interviewed at the end of a movie about all of this. I think it was “Spotlight”. Jim Talbot had worked in Boston and the Diocese sent him to Maine after he’d been caught abusing boys at the school down there.
    He was at all of our family holidays.
    These people are deserving of nothing and should be buried without as much as a headstone.

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