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Article: Theories surround Law's visit: surprise trip to Rome provokes speculation about resignation, bankruptcy. (Church In Crisis).(Bernard Law)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 20, 2002
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A media frenzy, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Thus Cardinal Bernard Law's surprise trip to Rome in early December, amid new revelations of sex abuse by priests and signs of financial meltdown in the Boston archdiocese, generated rivers of speculation in the absence of hard information.
Officially, the only comment on the trip came Dec. 9, from Vatican spokesperson Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who issued a terse two-line statement confirming Law's presence and saying that he had come to discuss "diverse aspects of the situation" in Boston.
As NCR went to press, there were indications that another statement might be forthcoming.
Law, as has become his ...