Cardinal Bernard Law, who is infamously known for the sex scandals within the Catholic Church, has died on December 19, 2017. Law was well known for his involvement in the Geoghen case, a case in which a priest named John Geoghen was accused of sexual misconduct with young boys. The case itself, however, is so famous considering there was documented evidence found that Law was well aware of the issue, but instead of addressing it he swept it under the rug and transferred Geoghen to another church where the cycle started anew. He himself was eventually convicted for the assault of a young ten-year-old boy and was forced into resignation while scrutiny of the Church went under way. The most enlightening case that informed citizens and religious individuals about the sex scandal to being with was 2015's Spotlight which won several academy awards. The movie discusses the true story of a newspaper that sheds light on the hidden scandals of pedophile priests within the church, and completely disregarding the myth that it is "a few bad apples". In fact, the film goes over the fact that at least one hundred pedophile priests were found, and 1,500 of their victims remained while being completely and willingly red by Cardinal Law, the head of the Church at that time.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/world/cardinal-bernard-law-death-funeral-reaction/index.html
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