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• Report criticizes U.S. Catholic Church's policy on child abuse by priests | The report, the result of a conference held last April that featured eight non-Catholic experts, recommended that the so-called zero-tolerance policy be reconsidered (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Monsignor: Priests didn't call it abuse | Diocese leader says old clergy culture accepted having sex with youths (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Monsignor says harm of abuse wasn't recognized | The temporary leader of the Diocese of Springfield, appointed after its bishop resigned amid sexual abuse allegations, said in an interview yesterday that the scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church stems from a belief among some priests during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s that sex with young men was acceptable (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Reforms must shake church to its core | Scandal shows need for major changes, including power sharing by the pope (Jason Berry, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Bishops brace for release of sex abuse study | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops will hand ammunition to their critics next week by releasing a nationwide study of sex abuse in the church, but they hope that doing so will lead other organizations that care for children to conduct similar research, the president of the bishops' conference said yesterday (The Washington Post)
  
  

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