Editing Bernard Francis Law (section)

=== Sex abuse scandal exposés ===
{{Main|Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston}}
In January 2001, Law was named a defendant in several high-profile cases involving pedophile priests, including one involving Geoghan.<ref name="wbur">{{Citation|last=Becker|first=Deborah|title=Irish Catholics Call For Cardinal Law's Resignation, Following Clergy Abuse Report|url=http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/10/irish-priests-followup|year=2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222041434/http://www.wbur.org/2010/02/10/irish-priests-followup|publisher=[[WBUR-FM]]|access-date=March 23, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2012}}</ref> Reporter Kristen Lombardi, who was assigned to investigate by Susan Ryan-Vollmar, the editor of the ''[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|Boston Phoenix]]'' weekly,<ref name="Where">{{cite web|url= http://www.wbur.org/news/2015/09/22/cardinal-bernard-law |title= Where Is Cardinal Bernard Law Now? |publisher= WBUR |access-date=December 19, 2017|date=December 19, 2017}}</ref> wrote "Cardinal sin", an article about the cases.<ref name="Obit" />

Mark Keane, a victim of Geoghan, believed that Law had direct knowledge that Geoghan, who worked in the Archdiocese of Boston from 1962 to 1993, was repeatedly molesting children.<ref name="Where" /> Keane said that the archbishop not only allowed the priest to continue working, but repeatedly moved him from parish to parish where he had daily contact with many children (one of whom was Keane).<ref name="Obit" />

Even though abuse by Geoghan had been reported repeatedly in the media since 1996, the new editor of the daily ''[[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]]'' newspaper [[Martin Baron]] set the ''Spotlight'' investigatory team to work on the case in September 2001.<ref name="CNNFF" /> Lombardi acknowledged that the ''Globe'' may have had the story before she did, but was delayed somewhat pending the release of sealed records.<ref name="Spotlight">{{cite web |url= http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2015/10/30/phoenix-globe-spotlight/ |title= Out of the Spotlight: Who Deserves Credit for the Scoop? |work= Boston Magazine |date= October 30, 2015 |first= Kyle |last= Clauss |access-date= November 12, 2015 |archive-date= November 2, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151102015343/http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2015/10/30/phoenix-globe-spotlight/ |url-status= dead }}</ref>