[SuziQ]

The Attorney General of the state tried his best to make the Cardinal criminally responsible,
I doubt you can document that allegation.

It was in his report that was published in the Boston Globe, at the same time he pulled some number out of thin air about how many MORE cases of abuse there probably had been.

[NYCVirago]

I notice you ignored my documentation of the real facts about your buddy Cardinal Law. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

[NYCVirago]

I notice you ignored my documentation of the real facts about your buddy Cardinal Law. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

[ladyjane]

Had the AG really wanted to nail Cardinal Law he would have done it the day before the Cardinal hotfooted it to Rome that Saturday. The troopers went to his door but 'by chance' the Cardinal was not at home. Low and behold, the Cardinal left town the next day.

Many people in Boston were incensed by the Cardinal's pressure on them to cover up the crimes. He spoke privately with probably every Catholic politician, judge and media person in Massachusets with the same strong message: "As a good Catholic you have a responsibility to cover all of this up." Face it, he wanted to be the first Harvard Pope - and he felt the only way to do it was to cover up the miasma.