NEW YORK (NY)
CRUX

December 22, 2017

By Christopher White

NEW YORK – At a press conference in Boston on Wednesday, Cardinal Sean O’Malley was asked whether he believed Cardinal Bernard Law, his predecessor who became the public face of the Church’s child sexual abuse scandals, would be welcomed into heaven.

Law died in Rome on Wednesday, and is largely remembered for his damning cover-up of clergy sexual abuse.

O’Malley told reporters that he hoped everyone would be welcomed into heaven – while also adding that he was not the one to judge. He also said that there was more to Law than his mistakes – a means of acknowledging the obvious, while also pulling a page from Shakespeare in an effort to perhaps signal that discretion is the better part of valor.

While Law’s death did not exactly elicit the sounds of silence that some had predicted, and…