BOSTON -- The Boston Globe is once again calling on the archbishop of Boston to resign.

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NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda reported that an editorial in Tuesday's newspaper echoed one six weeks ago that said Cardinal Bernard Law had lost his ability to lead the Boston Archdiocese because of his role in the clergy sex abuse scandal.

In urging him for the second time to step down, the Globe said Law has "irretrievably damaged his standing as a spiritual leader."

The editorial cites the cardinal's letter distributed Sunday, in which he laid some of the blame for the assignment of accused priest the Rev. Paul Shanley on others. Law wrote that he assumed when he arrived as Boston's new archbishop that priests had been appropriately appointed.

"Whatever the responsibility of others, he cannot escape his central role in the scandal," the editorial stated. "Law casts a shadow over the church in Boston, and he can remove it only by his departure."

Some clergy members said that they support Law's decision to remain.

"I think we see it from a different point of view," said the Rev. Robert Bullock of Our Lady Of Sorrows Church. "We see it from a pastoral point of view. We're dealing with our own communities, with the priesthood. We don't want to engage in anything that contributes even more to the divisiveness that is rampant within the diocese.

But Sister Eleanor Mullaley said it is Law's continued presence that continues to fuel the divisiveness.

"I mean, this whole thing from day one has been one disaster after another," Mullalley said. "I hate to say it, but it's like an embarrassment."

Mullaley said that the crisis and the church's response have been painful.

"It's very painful. But what's really painful is when I think of those children. That's what's painful," she said. "And I've taught some of those children, by the way. And I know sisters who have taught who are being torn apart just thinking and remembering of a child being taken out of their class when it was never in their mind."

Shanley has been accused of removing children from classrooms to abuse them.

Calls to the archdiocese for comment were not returned.