In Rome, the Catholic Church is coming under criticism for allowing Cardinal Bernard Law to celebrate today’s mass of mourning for Pope John Paul II at St. Peter’s Basilica. The mass is just one of nine such services being conducted at the Vatican in honor of the Pope. Law was at the center of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the church in Boston while he was Cardinal. He resigned his post in 2002. Victims of priest abuse plan to protest outside the mass today. David Clohessy of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priest said of Bernard Law, “He’s the symbol of the scandal. This is a clear sign that the church is not taking its history of sexual abuse seriously, and that it is not at all in touch with the pain in the American church.”