Bishops, conservatives meet.A group of 40 influential conservative Catholics met with five U.S. bishops in Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. on September September: see month. 9 to share their concerns on politics and the clergy sex abuse crisis. The meeting, organized by Deal Hudson Hudson, towns, United States Hudson. 1 Industrial town (1990 pop. 17,233), Middlesex co., E central Mass., on the Assabet River, in an apple-growing region; settled c.1699, inc. 1866. , editor of Crisis magazine, and Russell Shaw
Russell Lee Shaw, Jr. , former spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, took place after a group of liberal Catholics met in July with some of the same bishops--including Wilton Gregory, president of U.S. bishops' conference--the Washington Post reported. Although none of the bishops spoke to reporters after the session, Hudson said the meeting was "very positive." "We said it weakens their leadership when they fail to clearly define and defend the teaching of the church," Hudson said, "and we urged them to defend that teaching." |
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