IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Cormac McQuinn
Tuesday February 21 2012
A CARDINAL who was forced to resign as Archbishop of Boston over a child sex abuse cover-up scandal attended parties at Ireland’s Vatican Embassy last year.
Disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law attended farewell bashes for the Irish and British ambassadors in Ireland’s former embassy to the Holy See, the lavish Villa Spada mansion.
The revelation that such a controversial figure was an honoured guest in the embassy just last year comes as the row over its closure continues to rage.
And it will anger victims of abuse after a string of reports into child sex abuse by the clergy in this country have been released in recent years.
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