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Protest against Cardinal

ROME:, One of the Catholic Church's most serious and embarrassing problems returned to haunt it on Tuesday during an official service of mourning in Rome for the late Pope. Two women who claimed they were abused as children by their parish priests demonstrated in St Peter's Square in protest at the American Cardinal chosen to conduct the commemoration mass. Cardinal Bernard Law was forced to resign as Boston's Archbishop after being accused of covering up the activities of paedophile priests two years ago. As archpriest of one of the Vatican's four great basilicas, Santa Maria Maggiore, he led the ceremony on Monday that is part of nine official days of mourning for Pope John Paul II. In driving rain the two women handed out protest leaflets in St Peter's Square. —

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