The Boston Globe took their information from letters, depositions, interviews with victims, and church documents. Everything I'm quoting is from those items. Please give me some examples of the "crap" that they've written about Cardinal Law -- I wasn't able to find any information that they wrote that wasn't backed up by documents. Heck, they have all these documents on their website so you can see for yourself how they got the information!
They wanted the way clear to push their NAMBLA attitudes and same sex marriage without any interference from the Church. I think, when they saw Sean O'Malley, that they thought they had a kindred spirit. It's the old saw about "be careful what you wish for."
Source, please. The only people I could find advocating NAMBLA on the Globe's website were priests, who got to keep their jobs despite doing so. Oh, and Cardinal Law, who turned a blind eye to priests buggering young boys.
The only priest I knew of who had anything to do with NAMBLA was Paul Shanley, who the Globe praised back in the day for being so 'relevant' for the times and young people. As for their being on the side of NAMBLA, check out the stories surrounding the kidnap and murder of Jeffrey Curley. One of the murderers had NAMBLA information in his car and home and on his home computer. The Globe didn't want to attach anything homosexual to that crime for the obvious reasons.