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In the public eye of the recent past, Law has come to represent the worst of the Catholic Church.
...left his post disgraced, a symbol in many people’s eyes of the corruption responsible for crippling the Catholic Church. Catholicism became the target of many jokes and the faith of many of its devotees was shaken...
Cardinal Law’s descent began in January 2002 when the Boston Globe reported that former Catholic priest John J. Geoghan had sexually abused children for years—and that Law knew about the abuse, but still allowed Geoghan to remain in contact with parishoners.
Few who have followed the child abuse scandal would be able to discern in Law the vestiges of a college student who came across to many who knew him as the pious paragon of Catholic virtue.
Long before he became one of the most influential American prelates in the Church, friends say the Adams House resident embodied the dedication, temperance and good will that the Catholic Church has always advocated.