Boston opened 'Pandora's box' of clergy sex abuse worldwide

Cardinal Bernard Law became a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church's widespread failure to protect children as he presided over a cover-up of sexual abuse by priests in Boston's archdiocese. A global reckoning in the church is still happening today, 15 years after he resigned as archbishop. As abuse victim Robert Costello put it on Wednesday, the day Law died, Boston was just the beginning.

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