Cardinal Law was never prosecuted for his crimes hiding pedophiles in Churches.  Cardinal Law never truly repented for his sin of hiding and assisting pedophiles.  His death brings no peace.  Perhaps God can forgive, we cannot.

"The Obituary Bernard Law Deserves" 

http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/12/21/eileen-mcnamara-bernard-law

"He is being buried today from St. Peter’s, from the heart of the Vatican, on the darkest day of the year. Pope Francis himself will bless the remains of Cardinal Bernard Law, the prelate who facilitated and covered up the crimes of predatory priests across decades in the Archdiocese of Boston.

It was not enough that the misguided men of Rome provided Law safe haven at a Roman basilica for 15 years after the depth and breadth of his obstruction of justice was exposed. They have to honor the un-indicted co-conspirator in the sexual abuse of children with a saint’s send-off in the sacred seat of the Roman Catholic Church.

It astounds the imagination, even among those of us who thought all the pope’s men had long ago exhausted our capacity for outrage.

Let’s leave it to The New York Times and The Washington Post to refuse to speak too ill of the dead, to balance the ledger with an even-handed accounting of his good deeds and bad. In Boston, Law deserves an obituary as unvarnished as his rank ambition and craven evasion of responsibility."

More.

"It is not only for his complicity in the sexual abuse of children that Law will answer to his God. His opposition to the death penalty and support for affordable housing masked a meanness underneath that embraced the retrograde social policies that would hurt the faithful but burnish his reputation in Rome.

In 1987, he lobbied hard against a bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, calling the measure "a concerted effort to alter the way society looks at itself, looks at family and marriage, looks at human sexuality.”

In 1989, he opened diocesan churches to the antiabortion zealots of Operation Rescue to use as staging areas for their illegal assaults on women’s health clinics.

In 1990, he approved the transfer of maternity care from St. Margaret’s Hospital in a black neighborhood of Dorchester to St. Elizabeth’s in a white neighborhood of Brighton, even though more babies died every year in a 1-mile radius around St. Margaret's than died in the previous 3 1/2 years in all of Allston-Brighton."

Law was a nasty, mean spirited man.  Cardinal Law remained unrepentant for his misdeeds through his death.  We hope God can forgive him, WE CANNOT!