Too bad you can't ask John Pual II why he made that decision, but Cardinal Law didn't molest anyone. He made mistakes, which he admitted, in his treatment of the molesters, after they'd committed their crimes.
People seem to forget that he didn't allow these men to return to positions in their parishes on a whim. He, as happened with many Bishops and heads of Personnel offices in Dioceses throughout the country, relied on the professional assessment of psychiatrists and therapists who were dealing with these men using the attitude of the day, that they could be 'cured' of their molesting ways. No one seems to be holding any of these professionals accountable for THEIR actions, yet everyone seems to be saying that the Cardinal and the other Bishops should have known better than to accept their decisions. Why do people hire professionals in the first place? Because they trust that they'll be given the information they need to make proper decisions.
I, for one, think that any priest who is accused of molesting anyone should be investigated by the police, because a crime may have been committed. If the evidence is credible, he should be arrested and given his day in court. If he's found guilty, he needs to be put in jail so he can't hurt anyone else. That's what SHOULD have been done, but the Church, like many other institutions in the world who care for their reputations, tended toward the cover-up, which is NEVER good for anyone.
No. Some demons don't come out except with prayer and fasting.
Law (and many others) made a big mistake in consulting secular headshrinks about a spiritual problem. A sin, in other words.
Modern pschoanalysis disagrees with Catholic teaching on just about every issue of significance. So why would the Church run to its practitioners seeking a solution for its problems?
Utter madness.
What do quacks full of psychobabble know of man's susceptibility to temptation, sin and Satan? Nothing. They think if you sit on a sofa for X number of sessions, listen attentively and get your ticket punched then you're cured and can be released never to sin again.
Baloney. Satan laughs at Ph.Ds and M.Ds. He has no fear of college transcripts. It's holy water and penance which terrify him.
It would not matter to me WHY he rescued Law and gave him the prestigious position and rewarded him.
There is no excuse for what Law did and there is no reason for him to have been rewarded.