When Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop of Boston, fled to the Vatican in late 2002, he left behind a trail of human and financial wreckage: 550 victims (and plaintiffs) abused by parish priests and court judgments that eventually topped $85 million. The actual number of victims, by some estimates, could be nearly three times the number who settled with the Church in 2003.
Meanwhile, Law was assigned a comfortable post in Rome, where he disappeared from the headlines.
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