THIS STRIKES ME AS EXTREMELY POOR JUDGMENT:

Cardinal Bernard Law has celebrated Mass in mourning for Pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Basilica, ignoring protests from victims that his handling of the sex abuse scandal in the US Catholic church should disqualify him from the honour. . . .

Law resigned as archbishop of Boston in December 2002, after unsealed court records revealed he had moved predatory clergy among parishes without alerting parents that their children were at risk. More than 550 people have filed abuse claims in Boston in recent years and the archdiocese has paid more than $US85 million ($A110 million) in settlements.

Extremely.