Subject: Good riddance: Cardinal Bernard Law, Boston archbishop at center of church sex-abuse scandal, dies at 86 Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:59 am
Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Boston archbishop who became one of the most influential Catholic leaders in the United States before resigning in 2002 amid revelations that he and other prelates had known for years of rampant child molestation by parish priests, a scandal that has been called the church’s darkest crisis of the modern era, has died at 86.