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Reports link Law to crackdown on nuns

3 Catholic publications say cardinal was key voice in Vatican’s bid for oversight

By Michael Rezendes

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 05, 2012

Three respected Catholic publications are reporting that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the controversial former Boston archbishop, played a key role in the Vatican’s decision to tighten its grip on the largest association of Catholic nuns in the United States. But William E. Lori, the newly-named archbishop of Baltimore, is contesting those reports, particularly one that says he filed a petition with the Vatican to investigate United States nuns - and that Law was his primary backer in Rome.

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