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.

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

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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.

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Gwen Ifill looks at the latest developments in the child abuse scandal facing the Catholic Church with Bishop Joseph Galante of Dallas.

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Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television reports on the internal struggle between Hindus and Muslims in western India.

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Spencer Michels looks at the new debate over celibacy in the Catholic church.

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Boston's Cardinal Law sits for a third day of depositions, angrily rejecting charges he acted with negligence.

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A 38-day standoff between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen at the Church of the Nativity ended Friday.

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Negotiators are reportedly close to a deal that would end the five-week standoff between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

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Is cloning playing God? Kevin FitzGerald, the Dr. David P. Lawler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics and a research associate professor in the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center, tackles that question in an interview with the…

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