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Article: Cardinal Law resigns.(Church Notes)
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- Catholic New Times
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- January 5, 2003
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ROME (CNT) -- On Dec. 13 Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Francis Law of Boston, Mass., effectively ending the tarnished career of a man who had been one of the most influential figures in American religion before revelations of his repeated failure to remove sexually abusive priests from ministry sparked a scandal of unprecedented proportions.
Law, 71, is by far the highest-ranking American church official ever to lose his job as a result of a scandal, and he is the first American bishop to lose his job for mismanaging sexually abusive priests. Pressure had been building for a year after damaging revelations of Law's reassignment of ...