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Cardinal Bernard Law to be honored with Vatican funeral
Pope Francis will deliver a final blessing at Law's funeral Thursday, the Vatican said
Some sex abuse survivors have urged against a "celebratory focus" on Law
December 20, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/world/cardinal-bernard-law-death-funeral-reaction/index.html [with embedded video]


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Pope ignores abuse scandal in condolences for US cardinal
December 20, 2017
http://m.digitaljournal.com/news/world/pope-ignores-abuse-scandal-in-condolences-for-us-cardinal/article/510488


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Cardinal O’Malley statement on the death of Cardinal Bernard Law

In this Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004 file photo, Cardinal Bernard Law has his skull cap adjusted during the ceremony for Our Lady of the Snows, in St. Mary Major's Basilica in Rome, Italy.
Dec 20, 2017
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2017/12/20/cardinal-omalley-statement-death-cardinal-bernard-law/


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Cardinal Bernard Law unacknowledged at his former cathedral's mass
December 20, 2017
At this morning's Mass at Holy Cross Cathedral, the same parish where controversial Cardinal Bernard F. Law served as archbishop of Boston for 18 years, the faithful did not acknowledge his death at the service.
Cathedral rector the Rev. Kevin J. O'Leary presided over the 19-minute Holy Communion for 16 multiracial parishioners in a basement sanctuary, where there is seating for hundreds.
Many lingered in Our Lady's Chapel's pews, heads bowed in prayer, after O'Leary left hastily. The majority declined to comment on the 86-year-old cardinal's death, announced last night by the Catholic Church.
Parishioner Russell Baldwin, who is also a volunteer groundskeeper at the cathedral, said, "It was a sad period in Boston, in the country, but look what came of it.
"He was a good man and he just got caught up in ... What happened inside of Cardinal Law, I can't say. I know it's something he didn't want to happen," Baldwin said. "It's sad. It was a sad time in Boston."
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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/12/cardinal_bernard_law_unacknowledged_at_his_former_cathedrals_mass


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Bernard Law, The Vatican’s Face of Evil, Is Dead but the Pain Lives On

Bernard Law, the American cardinal who became of the face of the Catholic clerical abuse scandal in America, is dead at the age of 86, but his cover-up legacy lives on.
12.20.17
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-vaticans-face-of-evil-is-dead-but-the-pain-lives-on


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Church Sex Abuse Survivor On Law Death: ‘Gates Of Hell Swinging Wide’
December 20, 2017
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/12/20/cardinal-bernard-law-death-catholic-church-priest-sex-abuse-survivors-mitchell-garabedian/ [with embedded video]


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Cardinal Law’s death prompts apologies – and anger

Dec 20, 2017
http://religionnews.com/2017/12/20/cardinal-laws-death-prompts-apologies-and-anger/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAMoEXNKQZc [embedded; comments disabled]