Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Church's abuse scandals, dies at 86

Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Church's abuse scandals, dies at 86

John Allen

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ROME - Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, the former Archbishop of Boston who was a titan of late 20^th century American Catholicism and who became the most notorious symbol of the Church’s clerical sexual abuse scandals, has died at the age of 86.
Law died in Rome on Dec. 20 following what a brief Vatican statement described as a “long illness.”