VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died ...

Cardinal Bernard Law, the former Boston archbishop who resigned in disgrace during the church sex abuse scandal, has died, the Vatican has confirmed. Law died in Rome, where he served as archpriest of ...

When the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted in Boston in 2002, Cardinal Bernard Law, who died Wednesday at age 86, had every reason to think he would survive. Law had a place among the power brokers of ...

ROME — Early Wednesday morning, hours after Cardinal Bernard F. Law died in a Rome hospital, a priest unlocked a small chapel at the Basilica of St. Mary Major and pointed to the spot under the marble ...

A key figure of the child sexual abuse scandal that marred the Catholic Church in Boston has died. Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as archbishop in 2002 amid the investigation into the ...

Cardinal Bernard Law resigned Friday as Boston archbishop, finally bowing to months of public outrage that he failed to protect children from molesters in the clergy. Advertisement Article continues ...

The resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law brought relief, prayers and some sadness from Roman Catholics who watched the priest sex abuse scandal mushroom over the past year. Advertisement Article ...

A Los Angeles cardinal, Roger Mahony, 89, dripping tracks of scandal from recycling predator priests, found a shot of redemption at Pope Francis' funeral. Mahony is a cashiered cardinal. His successor ...