Cardinal Bernard Law

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McCormack, bishop panned for role in sex abuse scandal, dies

By HOLLY RAMERSeptember 23, 2021 GMT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Retired Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack, who faced criticism for his role in Boston’s clergy sex abuse scandal and led New Hampshire’s diocese during its own reckoning, has died.

Reporter: Many Cardinals Did Same as Bernard Law

December 22, 2017 GMT

Cardinal Law’s legacy: a stain of scandal on the church

By RACHEL ZOLLDecember 20, 2017 GMT

When the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted in Boston in 2002, Cardinal Bernard Law had every reason to think he would survive...

Cardinal Law, disgraced figure in church scandal, dead at 86

By RACHEL ZOLL and NICOLE WINFIELDDecember 20, 2017 GMT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died Wednesday in Rome at age 86...

Key events in the life of Cardinal Bernard Law

By The Associated PressDecember 20, 2017 GMT

Key dates in the life of Cardinal Bernard Law, who died early Wednesday at age 86.

— Nov. 4, 1931: Bernard Law is born in Torreon, Mexico; the only child of a U...