VATICAN CITY
KTRE
VATICAN CITY Six American-based cardinals were absent from a Mass for Pope John Paul celebrated by controversial U-S Cardinal Bernard Law.
But aides to three of those cardinals denied their absence at yesterday's service of mourning was a snub.
Law's handling of the clergy sex abuse scandal forced his resignation as archbishop of Boston. Some American victims of sexual abuse by clergy members had traveled to the Vatican to protest his high-profile role in the papal mourning ceremony.
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