There were also a couple of people who kept defending Cardinal Law and the archdiocese of Boston. I wonder if they are still around?
I don’t know. Law resigned in 2002.
If you read the transcript of Cardinal Law’s deposition, it was clear why he wasn’t jailed: He had “doctor’s notes” to return the pervs to active service. Our own government was turning them loose from prisons with the same notes at the time Law was; since then we’ve started “civilly committing” them (keeping them in prison after their terms are served because the shrinks feel they’ll do it again once free). The whole scandal was horrible, but I think there were much worse players than Law.