VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as Boston’s archbishop in 2002 after the priest sex abuse scandal exploded in the United States, has left his subsequent job as head of a major Roman basilica.
The Vatican said Monday that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted Law’s resignation as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica and had named as as Law’s replacement Spanish Monsignor Santos Abril y Castello.
Law’s 2004 appointment as the archpriest of one of Rome’s most important basilicas had been harshly criticized by advocates for clerical sex abuse victims, who charged that bishops who covered up for pedophile priests should be punished, not rewarded.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law resigns Vatican post
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1382676&pos=breaking
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I thought I had read somewhere that Law's assignment to that specific church had to do with a non-extradition treaty. I wonder since he has now been released from that assignment if the DA in Boston will seek extradition. Hmmm.
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