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By Brian Bethel
Posted February 29, 2012
Bishop Michael Pfeifer, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Angelo, will travel in mid-March to visit Pope Benedict XVI.
Pfeifer, along with other bishops who make up the Vatican’s Region X of the United States, will visit Benedict March 13—21, a diocese statement said. …
“Definitely we will talk about the sexual abuse situation that really came to the forefront 10 years ago,” he said. “The pope has been very, very concerned what the American bishops are doing about that, and in our reports to Rome, that’s one of the major points.”
The San Angelo Diocese has a yearly audit, a regularly-revised policy book, orientation classes and other items in place to both educate those within it and prevent abuse, Pfeifer said.
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