Cardinal Law was fully investigated by the state attorney general and the district attorneys in the 5 counties of the Archdiocese. He gave evidence before two grand juries. The state attorney general, after several years of horrible press and intense scrutiny, concluded that Law had not tried to evade investigation and had not broken any laws.
Upon turning 80 last November, Law became ineligible to participate in any papal conclave or to hold any Curial memberships, and was replaced as archpriest of Sta Maria Maggiore by Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló
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It is not OK.
Cardinal Law presided over the shuttling around of known predatory homosexual pederast priests. He enabled, or allowed others under his authority to place these priests in positions where they could and did commit further attacks on boys.
Lives were ruined, families were devastated, and the faith in the Church of untold numbers of Catholics was diminished.
I believe all of the above is uncontested fact.
Criminal law/prosecution is irrelevant.
How can anyone claim reform while this behavior is accepted in the highest offices of the Church?
He should have been expelled from the Church, not given *any* job in Rome, no matter how small you portray it to be.
Thanks, Mrs. Don-o.