Talk:Bernard Francis Law

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Contents 1 USAF in 1931? 2 Protests during Pope's funeral masses 3 Name Issues 4 Vanadlism 5 Law in Rome 6 Vandalism undetected since Oct 19, 2005 7 Article Overly Favorable 8 Law is a paedophile or not?

[edit] USAF in 1931?

The Air Force didn't exist until 1947. I suppose the author meant US Army Air Corps. If that's true, it should be changed.

[edit] Protests during Pope's funeral masses

" Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave Cardinal Law the honor of celebrating one of nine official Vatican masses during the nine official days of mourning."

I think it should be noted in the article that there were protests over having Law oversee the mass because of his association w/ the church sex abuse scandals. This was percieved by victims of abuse by priests, and their families, as a demonstration of insensitivity towards the victims. It may have been only a few people demonstrating, but I think it's notable that the Vatican chose this guy honor the pope after shaming the church (kinda makes you wonder if the Vatican really faulted him for his practice of relocating molestors and not notifying authorities or if the Vatican thought he'd done the right thing and this was a 'reward' for his service) and not everyone was happy with that.

The statement is somewhat inaccurate. As the archpriest of whatever major basilica, Cardinal Law would traditionally be one of the people to preside at one of the formal funeral Masses for a pope. The issue isn't that then Cardinal Ratzinger gave Law the honor of presiding at Mass, but that his ceremonial function wasn't taken away. Lets remember that he was appointed archpriest to remove him from any actual position of authority in the Church, as it is a mostly ceremonial function with not much more responsibility than a local parish pastor. However, when the time comes for ceremonies at the major basilicas (like papal funerals), the little position suddenly is thrust into the spotlight. Gentgeen 20:38, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

So he was given a cushy sinecure in Rome, which "kinda makes you wonder if the Vatican really faulted him for his practice of relocating molestors and not notifying authorities or if the Vatican thought he'd done the right thing and this was a 'reward' for his service". Jhobson1 18:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name Issues

His full name may be Bernard Cardinal Law but he is much better known simply as Cardinal Law. --mav 03:53 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Our policy is to use the format [{first name if known} Cardinal {surname}]. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) - Efghij 03:57 24 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Brain fart - I stand corrected. I'll fix. --mav

[edit] Vanadlism

Some one has deleted the entire section on the abuse scandal, can we get this back?

[edit] Law in Rome

It is incorrect to say Cardinal Law is a member of the Curia. He is not. Further, it is in accurate to say that the curia governs the Church -- neither it nor its members do. Rather the curia is a pastoral tool of the Pope.217.221.184.119 21:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

A pastoral tool that is used to govern the Church. Jhobson1 18:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism undetected since Oct 19, 2005

On that day User: Pitchka, now known as User: Dwain. inserted an illustration of the coat of arms of the College of Law of Adamson University (Manila), with the caption "Bernard Cardinal Law". How childish! How outrageous that this vandalism has not been corrected for more than 11 months! I shall delete this crap immediately. Too Old 04:54, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

An extreme reaction...Dunfermline Scholar (talk) 01:06, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article Overly Favorable

The article refers to Mr. Law as being "hounded" by the scandal. This casts his opponents into an unnecessarily unfavorable light. Mr. Law is a disgrace.

130.13.2.104 12:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)John Paul Parks130.13.2.104 12:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Law is a paedophile or not?

It is not clear from the article if Bernard Law is an active paedophile or not. Moreover, as a protector of paedophiles, did he protected other paedophile priests, except those mentioned in the Boston sex abuse scandal? Does the Catholic Church still promote paedophile comportaments among his priests or this practice is currently on hold? Definitely, this article needs more detail informations and disambiguations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Transsylvanian (talk • contribs) 07:13, 12 January 2008 (UTC)