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Victims condemn Pilot for honoring Law

Archdiocesan paper skirts abuse scandal

By Jenna Russell

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 05, 2011

Victims of clergy sexual abuse, their lawyers and advocates condemned the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston for publishing an uncritical profile of Cardinal Bernard F. Law on his 80th birthday yesterday. The lengthy story chronicling the cardinal’s life, one of a series of biographies of Boston cardinals being published by The Pilot, devoted two paragraphs to Law’s role in the clergy abuse crisis and ended by wishing him “Happy Birthday, Your Eminence.’’ It was published on Friday.

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