The Hurt Is Still There’: Abuse Survivors Grapple With Cardinal’s Death

BOSTON — News of the death of Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who failed to remove sexually abusive priests from the ministry when he was archbishop of Boston, drew a sulfurous outcry in his old archdiocese on Wednesday from survivors still in pain from having been betrayed by the church they trusted. “I hope the gates of hell are open wide to welcome him,” Alexa MacPherson, 42, said at a news conference. Another survivor, Robert Costello, 56, called the Catholic Church “the world’s largest pedophile ring.”

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