When critics of the Catholic Church call for more transparency and accountability, they often point to Cardinal Bernard Law, who despite being accused of protecting pedophile priests from prosecution in Boston found a comfortable and influential second career at the Vatican.
Cardinal Bernard Law leads a Mass celebrated in the Pope John Paul II's memory, at the St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome in 2005. Cardinal Law resigned in disgrace as archbishop of Boston over his role in the clergy sex abuse crisis. He died Dec. 20, 2017.
"There is no priest in an assignment in this archdiocese whom we know to have been guilty of child abuse," he said in response to questions. The Globe had a list of accused priests who were still in service and a wave of documents would shred what was left of Law's credibility.Boston Globe reporter Michael Rezendes
A poster boy for the sexual abuse scandal in one country, Law came to another, the Vatican, in May 2004, where protected and assisted by friends and allies he actually became more influential than he had ever been in Boston. Above the cardinal and centuries of priceless art, white flower petals dropped from a ceiling gilded in gold. If there was a trace of official embarrassment over Law's presence, it was not apparent.
Law became the maker of American bishops. Ray Flynn, a former ambassador to the Vatican, can rattle off five or six of Law's personal staffers in Boston who Law got appointed bishops."He had a lot of power and a lot of friends at the Vatican," Flynn says.
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