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December 20, 2017

US Cardinal Bernard Law was widely blamed for failing to stop child molesters in the priesthood during his tenure in Boston.

Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston who became a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandals, has died at 86.

Cardinal Law died in a hospital in Rome, where he had been living.

The Vatican did not give a cause as it announced his death, but the Cardinal was believed to have been suffering from complications of diabetes and liver failure, among other ailments.

Cardinal Law was archbishop of Boston, one of the most prestigious and wealthy American archdioceses, for 18 years.

The late Pope John Paul reluctantly accepted his resignation in 2002 after the Catholic Church was rocked by worldwide sex abuse revelations.

The scandal was uncovered by the Boston Globe’s…