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Article: O'Malley calls Law post 'poorly timed'.(Nation)
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- July 16, 2004
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Boston's archbishop has admitted that the nomination of his predecessor, Cardinal Bernard Law, to a Roman job "couldn't have come at a worse time," and that "people in Boston didn't really understand the appointment."
Archbishop Sean O'Malley spoke to NCR July 2 in Rome. O'Malley, 60, was in Rome to receive the pallium, a sign of his authority as a metropolitan archbishop, in a June 29 Vatican ceremony.
Law, whose failure to intervene against abusive priests in Boston made him a symbol of the sex abuse crisis, resigned on Dec. 13, 2002. After more than a y-ear officially residing in a convent in Maryland, Law, 72, was named May 27 as archpriest of the ...