CHICAGO (IL)
Courier & Press
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Courier & Press staff writer 461-0783 or elliottp@courierpress.com (C) 2005, Evansville Courier & Press
June 16, 2005
When they meet today in Chicago, the U.S. Catholic bishops will consider revisions in their sexual abuse policies that some say weaken enforcement.
While the proposed revisions to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People do keep the "one strike" policy, they add that priests should be presumed innocent.
Some victims' advocates say the proposed changes give the bishops excessive latitude about reporting abuses to civil authorities.