Cardinal Law Said To Be At Death’s Door

Cardinal Bernard Law, the long-serving archbishop of Boston who resigned under pressure during the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, is "facing his final illness" at a hospital in Rome, according to a well-connected Vatican journalist. Rocco Palma, who runs the web site Whispers in the Loggia, reported that church officials are in "active preparation for the death" of Law, 86.

Cardinal Bernard Law, the long-serving archbishop of Boston who resigned under pressure during the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, is "facing his final illness" at a hospital in Rome, according to a well-connected Vatican journalist. Rocco Palma, who runs the web site Whispers in the Loggia, reported that church officials are in "active preparation for the death" of Law, 86.…