BOSTON (MA)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

December 22, 2012

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and RACHEL DONADIO / The New York Times

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday appointed as the Vatican’s new sex crimes prosecutor a priest who handled clergy sexual abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church in Boston at the height of the scandal and for years afterward. …

Father Oliver was among the canon lawyers brought in to advise Cardinal Bernard F. Law on sexual abuse cases in Boston, where the church’s sexual abuse scandal erupted anew in 2002. He was put in charge of the office investigating charges against accused priests after the cardinal was forced to resign in 2002 amid an uproar over revelations that the cardinal had kept abusive priests working in parishes.

Father Oliver helped write the archdiocese’s new abuse prevention policy in 2003. He has been serving as a canon lawyer for the archdiocese and…