IRELAND
Irish Independent
[Disgraced cardinal was guest at Vatican embassy]
By Cormac McQuinn and John Cooney
Tuesday February 21 2012
Cardinal Bernard Law, once one of the most influential members of the clergy in the US, was born in Mexico to American parents in 1931.
He attended Harvard University in the 1950s and was later ordained a priest at the age of 30.
As a young priest in Mississippi he was involved in the civil rights movement to end racial segregation in the 1960s.
He was first appointed a bishop in Missouri in 1973. Said to have been a close ally to Pope John Paul II, he was later appointed as Archbishop of Boston, the fourth largest diocese in the US, in 1984 and became a cardinal a year later.
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