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Article: The stage trial of Cardinal Law: 'adaptation' reenacts the legal drama of Boston's abuse scandal.(Column)(Theater Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 16, 2004
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Just the other Sunday, Jean and I went over to the tiny Bailiwick Theater on Chicago's Belmont Avenue to see "Sin: A Cardinal Deposed." It wasn't a play. Rather it was called an "adaptation." Most of the words spoken had been taken from thousands of pages of material compiled during the deposition of Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, arguably the most powerful archbishop in America, a cappo di tutto cappo, a man to whom many sitting bishops owe their beanies. ("After Boston," the Mexican-born son of a U.S. Air Force colonel used to say, "there is only heaven." Now, for this consummate careerist who insisted on being addressed as "Your Eminence," there is only hell.)
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