Bernard Law in Attendance at Pope Francis Basilica Visit
Gazzetta del Sud
Vatican City, March 14 - The Vatican confirmed that disgraced American Cardinal Bernard Law was in attendance at Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major) Basilica in Rome on Thursday when Pope Francis came there to pray. "Bernard Law entered very discreetly, he entered through one of the side chapels," said spokesman Father Federico Lombardi. Law, the former archbishop of Boston, resigned in 2002 when unsealed court records revealed he had moved pedophile priests among church assignments without notifying parishioners. In 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed him archpriest of Saint Mary Major. He resigned from the position after turning 80 in late 2011. "As archpriest, he wanted to be there" when Francis came to pray, said Lombardi. Pope Francis started his first full day as the head of the Catholic Church by praying in the basilica before a famous icon of the Virgin Mary called the Salus Populi Romani (Protectress of the Roman People).
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