PROBLEM PRIESTS: Priestly power struggle

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A HURRIED MEETING in Chicago on Monday appears to have papered over - for now - hostility between some American Catholic bishops and the lay advisory board the bishops appointed to help them deal with the problem of sex abuse by priests.

At the meeting in Chicago, Judge Burke and leaders of the bishops conference agreed to continue the audits this year. But the deal must be approved by the conference as a whole at a meeting in Denver next month, setting up a showdown between church moderates and conservatives.

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