Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Catholic Church’s abuse scandals crisis, dies

Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston who became a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church’s worldwide sexual-abuse scandals, died on Wednesday, aged 86, the Vatican said. The cardinal had been living in Rome and was in declining health in recent years, Reuters reports. Law’s resignation from his Boston post in 2002 shocked the Church. A succession of stories by the Boston Globe’s team showed how priests who sexually abused children had been moved from parish to parish for years under Law’s tenure without informing parishioners or law authorities.