Cardinal Law: tragedy and scandal

Philip Lawler, First Things

Friday, December 22, 2017

Why do good people do bad things? That perennial question arises anew with the death of Cardinal Bernard Law, who has been so widely vilified as the central figure in the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal.

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