(FILES) This file photo taken on April 11, 2005 shows US Cardinal Bernard Law presiding over a mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. US Cardinal Bernard Law, a once-senior church figure forced to resign after revelations he failed to stop paedophile priests in one of the biggest crises in American Catholicism, has died, the Vatican said on December 20, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Thomas COEX