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  Full Text of Revised Draft Abuse Policy of the U.S. Bishops

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
June 14, 2011

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/usccb/2011_05_25_USCCB_Draft_Charter_Norms_and_Episcopal_Statement.pdf

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[For earlier versions of the Charter, Norms, and Statement of Episcopal Commitment, see our Church Documents page.]

Drafted May 25, 2011

To be voted on at the USCCB meeting this week

This text contains three documents: 1) a copy of current Charter, Norms, and Statement of Episcopal Commitment, with the proposed changes tracked in red; 2) a clean copy of the revised policy, with the tracked changes integrated into the text; 3) a 1/27/11 letter from Thomas J. Paprocki (Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance) to Bishop Blase J. Cupich (Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People), regarding the recent revisions to the Vatican's abuse policy, and the task of conforming the U.S. policy to the Vatican's.

 
 

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