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Bernard Law was so bad at his job, so deceitful and false, that his part in the sex abuse scandal is greater than the acts of the individual homosexual/pedophiles. IMHO.

Law's actions were a small fraction of what Cardinal Mahoney is doing/has done in LA. And yet he's still there. Why do you suppose that is?

I'll tell you why. Because he's hand-in-glove with the Democrat party--as are many of the homo-promo bishops within the Catholic Church in America. They cover for each other.

It would be instructive for you to do a web search for Bishop Hubbard in Albany, Father Minkler, and Mary Jo White. Hubbard was accused of child sex abuse himself. Within days of the accusation, he called a priest, Fr. Minkler, in to the chancery. Minkler had previously written a secret letter to the now deceased Cardinal O'Connor in NYC chronicling the exploits of Hubbard and dozens of other alleged homosexual clerics in Albany. Minkler's intention was to blow the whistle. Unfortunately, news of the letter got out and nothing ever came of it for reasons unknown.

No one is sure exactly what passed between Hubbard and Minkler when he was called to the chancery, but people who spoke to Fr. Minkler afterwards claim that he said he was forced to sign an affidavit saying he didn't write the letter. No one can ask Minkler these days because the day after his meeting with Hubbard, he was found dead--an apparent suicide.

Of course, there was an uproar and people were calling for Hubbard's resignation. He didn't resign. Instead, he hired Mary Jo White (a Clinton crony who had previously investigated and exonerated paragon of virtue ex-Senator Robert Toricelli) to "investigate" the allegations of sex abuse agaist Hubbard and the death of Fr. Minkler. Not surprisingly, after an investigation, White gave Hubbard a clean bill of health and presented the Albany diocese with a bill for nearly $1 million in legal fees.

Does this give you a little better idea of why things will NEVER get any better in some of these dioceses, failing intervention from the Holy Spirit? The Vatican can't roust these bishops either because they are effectively in schism. Even when the Vatican sends them a direct order, they lie and say they never received it. They are effectively in schism.

Not sure this response should go to you, but let's put it out there.

I worked for Cardinal Law and always found him very accessible and a very good boss.

My impression of him is that he has a vision as to what the responsibilities were and what the image of the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston should be and he worked very hard to meet those responsibilities and to adhere to that image.

Unfortunately that led to him making some pretty (for lack of a better word) dumb mistakes that I agree should have resulted in his resignation.

Whether his activities were criminal is open to debate, he clearly got some very bad advice from some folks (i.e. doctors at St. Luke center) that was criminal or at the very least incompetent.

You do need to remember that many of those guys who were advising Law are still in place advising O'Malley.

Good, bad or indifferent, Law has fallen on his sword and now holds a functionary position in Rome. Hardly a reward.