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Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of church sex abuse scandal, dead at 86
cnn ^ | Dec. 20, 2017 | Emanuella Grinberg, CNN

Posted on 12/20/2017 5:28:42 AM PST by Morgana

CNN)Cardinal Bernard Law, the former Boston archbishop who resigned in disgrace during the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal, has died, the Vatican confirmed. He was 86. Law died in Rome, where he had served as archpriest of the Papal Liberian Basilica of St. Mary Major after he was forced to resign in 2002 as archbishop of Boston.

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1 posted on 12/20/2017 5:28:42 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

You are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But I will afford myself a chuckle.


2 posted on 12/20/2017 6:12:23 AM PST by MGG
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To: MGG; Chode

On this one I will shake my head in disbelief.

Will never understand why he did what he did when he had the power to stop it. Maybe it was power above him that we don’t know about? One can only guess. Only God knows.

Wish he left answers because would like to know.


3 posted on 12/20/2017 6:34:21 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Prayers for the repose of his soul.


4 posted on 12/20/2017 9:10:10 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Morgana

God gave him the chance to do something about it here on earth and he didn’t.

Well, now there’s going to be an accounting before God for what he did.

He’d have been better off taking care of it then than now.

Something about millstones.........


5 posted on 12/20/2017 12:57:56 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: ebb tide

Prove he did.


7 posted on 12/20/2017 4:29:22 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: ebb tide

No answer?

Why am I not surprised?


9 posted on 12/20/2017 5:22:51 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Morgana

May he find justice.


10 posted on 12/20/2017 5:28:46 PM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: metmom

Maybe it’s because I’m a Catholic and I’ll let God do the judging, not I.


11 posted on 12/20/2017 5:43:00 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: Morgana

Hope he repented and converted before he died.


12 posted on 12/21/2017 4:41:45 AM PST by piusv (Pray for a return to the pre-Vatican II (Catholic) Faith)
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