Breaking News - Boston's Cardinal Law Offers His Resignation

Fox News | 12/12/02 | Fox News

[Lonely NY Conservative]

Boston's Cardinal Law Offers His Resignation - Headline Only as Per Fox News Online

[polemikos]

lucianne says that Law has resigned.

lucianne has changed this to "offered to resign."
All stories appear to be in essential conformity now.

[Lael]

It's just a report, but....

So, now the focus might shift to Central Arizona, where the Bishop, aka the Enabler, is looking for an IMMUNITY DEAL!!

[NYer]

Bernard Cardinal Law resignation bump!

[sinkspur]

And also those 58 priests who wrote that letter.

Absolutely not. Those priests would not have written that letter if they weren't ashamed and afraid to walk down the street for fear of being spit on.

Priests are not going to put up with bishops who border on the criminal.

[wideawake]

What did Archbishop Sleiman do wrong to get replaced by someone as reprehensible as Law?

[weikel]

Bout time.

[EternalHope]

Hope his resignation is accepted. His successor needs to let a lot of other folks go, too.

Priests are human, just like the rest of us. They sin and need forgiveness, just like the rest of us. They need to repent, just like the rest of us...

I suspect repentance is harder for someone who has their training, and who presents a public image as a "very good" person.

Cardinal Law (and a lot of his cronies) have sinned. Much worse, some of the people they harmed may have been pushed away from God. I am confident God will eventually bring these lost sheep back to Him, but the sin is immense anyway.

So far, I do not see any public sign of repentance. They did not just make a mistake - they sinned, BIG TIME. The response, so far, has been to keep trying to cover it up.

[Desdemona]

[big sigh]

sinky, VOTF is not interested in reform. They're intersted in gaining power. They don't speak for me.

[Man of the Right]

Sounds like a ploy. Offers to resign. Sounds like he plans to organize a telephone campaign to demand his retention.
What would it take to precipitate a resignation? Ask for time on all the networks and sodomize a toddler on camera? His title is not his private property. It belongs to God and his parisioners. As it is, his successor may be obliged to assume office performing mass in the gutter alone. The trial lawyers have a bead on all church assets. The faithful have left the church or are staying home in droves. Donations are non-existent. In hard times, who wants to sacrifice financially to provide the clergy hush money and drugs and baubles for their same-sex lovers?

[Desdemona]

Those priests would not have written that letter if they weren't ashamed and afraid to walk down the street for fear of being spit on.

Did you NOT read what american colleen had to say about these guys? She has no use for them.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Can Cardinal Archbishop of LA Ma-phoney be to far behind?

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out Cardinal Law!

[BlessedBeGod]

Priests are not going to put up with bishops who border on the criminal.

They've got an agenda of more than just getting rid of Cardinal Law because of this.

Just wait until they get an even more conservative cardinal, along the lines of Chaput.

[ZULU]

I hope his resignation is succeeded by his prosecution as an accessory before and after the fact in these activities.

But since these crimes are state issues and not federal ones, and since Law resides in Massahusetts, home of the "swimmer", I doubt the juduciary and law enforcement personnel will do anything to this miserable creature.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Okay. Now will that let him get off scot free or will it open him up to being sued?

If he's smart, he won't ever leave the grounds of the Vatican City-State during his earthly life.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

but as I recall he tried to resign in June and was told by the Vatican to stick it out.

Speculation by "unnamed sources" was that Law offered to resign in April. No one would go on the record making that claim and Law stated the subject did not come up in his meeting with the Pope. He may very well have lied to John Paul II and state that he was unaware of the magnitude of the problem and had no involvement. Wouldn't surprise me to learn that the anonymous source was one Roger Mahony, attempting to take the spotlight off of himself.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Didn't Christ have something to say about millstones around the neck and being cast into the sea for those who caused scandal to little children?

[livius]

Interesting analysis. I didn't realize that Law's supposed earlier offer to resign, supposedly rejected by the Pope, may never have happened.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

That dissident priest, Walter Cuenin, deserved to be censured and should be dismissed from the priesthood. He is an advocate for, amongst other things, same-sex marriage.

[Lael]

since Law resides in Massahusetts, home of the "swimmer", I doubt the juduciary and law enforcement personnel will do anything to this miserable creature.

Like I said, focus on Central Arizona, where the Bishop appears to have threatened the wrong District Attorney!!

[Desdemona]

Any speculation at this point is kind of useless one way or the other.

As for Mahoney, all in good time. With Law gone, there will be no smoke screen. And California is lifting the statute of limitations of sexual misconduct, etc., for one year, starting next year. I'm not wild about the idea, but...

DO think the archdiocese of LA can get anything for that monstrocity he built?