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Article: Bernard Law and the road to Rome.(Editorial)
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- Catholic New Times
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- February 9, 2003
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The decline and fall of Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law must be seen within the context of a papacy which, for all of its impact on the world stage, has been a dramatic failure within the institution. Law's stunning demise and--make no mistake about this--his fall from grace, is almost unprecedented in the North American church. One would have to go back to the tragic and abrupt dismissal of Montreal's Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau in 1949 to find an equivalent case.
Charbonneau, the much-loved shepherd, was canned for his passion for justice, specifically, for his brave stand on behalf of Quebec's asbestos workers. One minute it was the archbishop of Montreal, ...