22
October
ATHLETE: PRIEST ADMITS ABUSE
In a statement released in March 2002, Cardinal Bernard Law said he was deeply saddened by allegations against former Cardinal Humberto Medeiros. Law is defending his predecessor from accusations that he groped a boy more than two decades ago. Garry Garland, now 38, has made the allegation. He initially filed a lawsuit contending that he was sexually abused at age 14 by Monsignor Frederick Ryan, who was then vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of Boston. Garland alleged that Ryan got him drunk, led him to the monsignor’s quarters in the