Cardinal Bernard Law

Boston's Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law leads a prayer service for Boston area Catholic youth in Newton, Massachusetts, before joining them on a nine-hour bus ride to Toronto to see Pope John Paul II and attend World Youth Day July 23, 2002.

The late Cardinal Law will be remembered as the face of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse crisis

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Cardinal Bernard Law has been described as "a titan of 20th century American Catholicism." But he will be remembered for one thing: covering up child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

The late Cardinal Law will be remembered as the face of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse crisis