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Article: Ousting bishops not board's task, members say: scandal's momentum continues in Arizona. (Church in Crisis).
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- August 30, 2002
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Catholics who expected the new U.S. bishops' National Review Board to take quick action against church authorities who reassigned priests who had sexually abused minors got a different message about the board's work this week.
In a letter published in the Chicago Tribune Aug. 18, two members of the board said, "We were not convened to punish bishops for what they did in the pastor to insist that they should resign their episcopal offices now."
The board, they said, is responsible for monitoring dioceses in their implementation of the bishops' new "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People."
The letter writers, Illinois Appellate ...