Did the Pope's senior adviser on child abuse hand the Pontiff the explosive letter?
Being Archbishop of Boston is not an easy job at the best of times. When Cardinal Seán O’Malley took the post, it was the very worst of times. He succeeded the late Bernard Francis Law, one of the most scandal-ridden prelates of the modern era.
Law’s gross mishandling of paedophile priests in his archdiocese made the Church in Boston synonymous with old men in Roman collars molesting altar boys. The laity’s trust in their clergy collapsed, which in turn contributed to a vocations crisis that has forced the archdiocese to close or merge over 250 parishes in the last year.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/02/06/as-the-chile-crisis-deepens-all-eyes-turn-to-cardinal-omalley/
Law’s gross mishandling of paedophile priests in his archdiocese made the Church in Boston synonymous with old men in Roman collars molesting altar boys. The laity’s trust in their clergy collapsed, which in turn contributed to a vocations crisis that has forced the archdiocese to close or merge over 250 parishes in the last year.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/02/06/as-the-chile-crisis-deepens-all-eyes-turn-to-cardinal-omalley/
