YOU might call allowing a climate of pedophilia to florish and exist a simple mistake. I on the other hand call it wicked, morally and legally.
What you think of as a mistake, I think of as totally wrong beyond words.
That climate of pedophilia was there long before Bernard Law arrived in Boston. He had to deal with the problems that had been swept under the rug under Cardinals Cushing and Medeiros. Ain't saying what he did was right, but he didn't create the climate that allowed the sinfulness to flourish.