ROME
The Associated Press
December 20, 2017
Key dates in the life of Cardinal Bernard Law, who died early Wednesday at age 86.
— Nov. 4, 1931: Bernard Law is born in Torreon, Mexico; the only child of a U.S. Air Force colonel and a mother who converted to Roman Catholicism from Presbyterianism.
— 1953: Law graduates from Harvard University with a degree in medieval history.
— 1961: Law is ordained as a priest.
— 1968: Law takes a job at the ecumenical office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
— 1973: Law is named bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in Missouri.
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