VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud

14/03/2013

Disgraced Boston archbishop ‘entered discreetly’

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.