Religion

U.S. Bishops Adopt New Sexual Abuse Policy

Responding to the hundreds of allegations of child sex abuse, U.S. Catholic bishops adopted a policy Friday that bars priests guilty of abuse from parish work, but stopped short of endorsing a "zero-tolerance" policy.

Catholics in Crisis

Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul-Minneapolis discusses the U.S. Catholic Church's new policy forbidding pedophile priests from serving as clerics but allowing them to remain in the priesthood.

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Background: Catholics in Crisis

An update from Kwame Holman on the U.S. Catholic bishops' meeting in Dallas.

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Discussion: Catholics in Crisis

For reaction to the bishops' conference, Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to Father Robert Silva, president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils; Barbara Blaine, president and founder of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests; and Tom Roberts, editor of…

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Catholic Bishops Meet in Dallas, Address Scandal

In his opening address to a meeting of U.S. Catholic leaders, Bishop Wilton Gregory said the current sex abuse crisis is perhaps the gravest the American church has ever faced.

Background: Catholic Church in Crisis

Margaret Warner reports on the start of the Catholic bishops meeting in Dallas.

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Catholic Panel Recommends Defrocking Abusive Priests

A Catholic Church panel on Tuesday recommended any priest who abuses a child in the future be immediately defrocked. The panel added that priests with multiple incidents in the past should also be removed.