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	Ex-Cardinal Law Aide to Be Indy Auxiliary Bishop By Ken Kusmer Chicago Tribune January 14, 2011 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-rel-indianapolisa,0,3228742.story INDIANAPOLIS — Pope Benedict XVI named a former aide to disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law of the Archdiocese of Boston as auxiliary bishop of Indianapolis on Friday, making him the heir apparent to the ailing, aging archbishop of Indiana's largest Roman Catholic diocese. The director of a group representing people who had suffered sexual abuse by priests immediately labeled the appointment of Rev. Christopher Coyne "irresponsible and callous." The 52-year-old Coyne was Law's spokesman in 2002, when the sexual abuse scandal erupted in the Boston diocese. Law resigned months after a judge unsealed court records in January 2002 that showed he had allowed priests with confirmed histories of molesting children to continue working in parishes. Coyne will be the first auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in nearly 77 years and the presumed successor to Archbishop Daniel Buechlein, a native of Jasper who will turn 73 in April and has battled cancer of the lymph system.
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