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Oops!
Yesterday's Weblog was titled "Confusion Over Promoting Marriage Among the Poor." It turns out the confusion was all Weblog's.

"With the Republican victory last week, Congress now appears likely to set aside funding for programs that promote marriage among the poor," Alex Kotlowitz wrote in The New York Times.  Weblog misread that "set aside" as "leave alone" rather than "reserve." Kotlowitz, whose Frontlinedocumentary "Let's Get Married" airs on PBS tonight, was saying that the GOP will fund marriage.

To quote Emily Litella, "Oh. Never mind."

Bishops approve sex abuse policy:

• Bishops pass plan to form tribunals in sex abuse cases | Roman Catholic bishops insisted the revised rules will eventually remove from public ministry any priest who has ever sexually abused a minor (The New York Times)
  
  
• Bishops revise abuse policy | Clergymen say the new policy is tighter; lay groups call it too secretive (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Bishops set guidelines for sexual-abuse cases | The U.S. Catholic hierarchy yesterday adopted rules barring priests guilty of a single case of sexual abuse from public ministry and, surrendered to church courts the power to handle such cases (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Q&A: Clerical Sex Abuse Policy | Here, in question and answer form, is how bishops explain the plan (Associated Press)
  
  
• Bishops OK changes in abuse code | Vatican must give approval to policy (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• U.S. bishops OK revised policy on sex abuse (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Bishops change sex abuse policies (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Revised sex abuse policy passes easily (The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)
  
  
• Bishops set new policy on abuse | Revised charter guards priests' rights (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Despite new policy, bishops say work just beginning | Staffing tribunals could wind up as 18-month project (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A higher authority | The legal playbook of the Catholic Church is not the Bible, and the crafters of canon law are not the divinely inspired authors of scripture, points worth remembering in reacting to the decision of U.S. bishops to bow to the regressive dictates of Rome (Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Compromised bishops | The response of the bishops' conference is compromised by its inability to deal with the failings of its members (Editorial, The Boston Globe)

Catholicism:

• Bishops make ministry to Latinos a new focus | New plan is a reflection of both the growing presence of Latinos in the church and the competition for their religious loyalties (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Abortion, Latinos also on agenda for bishops | Sex abuse was not the only issue on the U.S. bishops' agenda at their annual fall meeting (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Bishops: Don't stay in abusive marriage | Battered women should not stay in abusive marriages, and anyone who would tell a victim of domestic violence that God wants them to stay with their husband is a false prophet, U.S. Catholic bishops declared yesterday (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  
• Pope seeks to heal Italy wounds | Pope John Paul II is to make an historic visit to Italy's parliament, 140 years after his predecessor refused to recognize the new-born Italian state (BBC)

French church standoff:

• French police end migrant drama (BBC)
  
  
• Also: French police raid migrants occupying church | Iraqi Kurds and Afghans had holed up in church for five days (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: French police evict church refugees (CNN)
  
  

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November (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46