Bishops' president looks beyond sex abuse crisis, urges healing

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The head of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops urged fellow church leaders, priests and parishioners Monday to heal the divisions that have developed from nearly a year of clerical sex abuse scandals.

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