[Mb-civic] Church Credibility on the Line

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Church Credibility on the Line 
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February 19 2005

Although their new audit suggests that the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church is far from over, U.S. bishops displayed their new era of openness Friday with the disclosure that most dioceses are conscientiously carrying out tough policies governing such cases. Even so, another part of the picture is less promising: Quietly, the church stands on the verge of letting the 2-year-old rules that form the backbone of those policies expire. 

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