This earthly realm never punished him, but Bernard Law is hopefully getting his just rewards as he transitions not to celestial glory but to a much, much warmer destination. As Cardinal of the Boston archdiocese, Law admitted covering up sexual assaults of children by his priests for decades and to knowingly perpetuating that abuse by reassigning pedophile priests to new parishes. The attorney general of Massachusetts wrote that "the mistreatment of children was so massive and so prolonged that it borders on the unbelievable." The archdiocese paid out $85 million to 552 victims. Law, despite his admissions, was never indicted and retired to the cushy confines of the Vatican. Law didn't believe in justice for his innocent victims, but he believed in Hell. He certainly deserves one of the hottest rooms in that dark hotel.