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Article: U.S. bishops defend policy on sex abuse.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 12, 2002
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Byline: Robin Washington
WASHINGTON - The nation's Catholic bishops yesterday strenuously defended their proposed procedures on clergy sex abuse, saying the new norms do not abandon the zero-tolerance policy adopted by the clerics at their June meeting in Dallas.
"There is nothing that we did in the revised norms that in any way weakens what we did in Dallas, and in many ways it strengthens it," Bishop Joseph A. Galante of Dallas said at the biannual meeting of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, where the new norms were formally introduced yesterday.
Galante and other bishops stressed to reporters the difference between the norms, ...