Bernard F Law

Settling to hide the truth

2006-12-05 00:00:00

THE $60-MILLION settlement announced last week between 45 molestation victims and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is a brutal reminder that moral crisis cannot be cured through legal compromise. In those cases, and the hundreds more yet to be settled,...

Letters to the Editor

2007-07-27 00:00:00

Journalism and terrorism Re "A byline for Hamas?" Opinion, July 22 I would rather that people write Op-Ed articles than fire rockets or build illegal settlements. The protests of Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper are heartfelt, but their claim to moral...

The Teflon cardinal

2007-07-22 00:00:00

At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine how Cardinal Roger M. Mahony can survive the pedophile scandal. Far from putting the matter to rest, the $660-million settlement that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay the victims of the...

Mahony, Counsel Lament Abuse Victims' Suffering

2004-09-24 00:00:00

Hundreds of sexual abuse claims filed against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles are not only legitimate but tragic, an attorney for Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said Thursday. "There are some that will just break your heart," said J. Michael...

Pope John Paul II Dies at 84

2005-04-02 12:07:00

Pope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...

Orange Diocese Gives Details on Sex Abuse

2005-05-18 00:00:00

For more than two decades, officials in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange covered up for priests who molested children, shuffling predators from parish to parish and diocese to diocese, protecting them from prosecution and failing to warn...

L.A. Times, Post Win 3 Pulitzers Each

2003-04-08 00:00:00

The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post each won three Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, and the Boston Globe won the prestigious Public Service gold medal for its coverage of sex abuse scandals plaguing the Roman Catholic Church. The Globe's tenacious...

Doug Daniels: Are Hippies to Blame for Priest Pedophilia?

2011-05-25 13:12:00

Last week a highly anticipated report about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was released, immediately drawing criticism from abuse victims and advocacy groups. The nearly $2 million study was conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice....

New auxiliary bishop ordained amid controversy

2011-03-02 15:39:00

At St. John the Evangelist Church near downtown Indianapolis Wednesday, Catholics in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis witnessed the ordination of the first auxiliary bishop since 1933. More than 100 priests and 17 cardinals and bishops were on hand for the...

Bridgeport Diocese Seeks Appeal To US Supreme Court

2009-07-17 11:46:00

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut sought Friday to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep under wraps sex abuse documents that could shed light on how a prominent retired cardinal handled the allegations. Bridgeport...

How Bishops are Appointed

2009-08-13 14:05:49

The ultimate decision in appointing bishops rests with the pope, and he is free to select anyone he chooses. But how does he know whom to select? The process for selecting candidates for the episcopacy normally begins at the diocesan level and works...

Bishops seek forgiveness of abused

2002-06-14 00:00:00

Assuming a posture of contrition and humility, the leaders of the U.S. Roman Catholic church moved Thursday toward adopting toughened policies that would remove from ministry any priest who abuses a child, even for a single allegation from long ago. In a...

Cardinal Bernard Law gives Communion to a priest at St. Peter s Basilica. Italians made up a large part of the crowd at the Mass. Those interviewed said they were vaguely aware of the sex abuse scandal in the U.S. but had no idea of Law s role in it.

2005-04-11 21:56:48

Boston Cardinal: Pope John Paul II meets Cardinal Bernard Law in a private audience at the Vatican in 2002.

2005-02-24 14:54:26

Pope John Paul II meets with Cardinal Bernard Law in a private audience at the Vatican on Dec. 13. Law, under intense fire in a church sex abuse scandal, resigned as Boston archbishop, the Vatican announced.

2002-12-13 06:52:34