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The report said Bishop Murphy "took some positive steps in handling child sexual abuse cases," including the establishing of a supervised residence program for abusive priests.

After a year of steady revelations about his cover-ups and kind words for abusive priests, Cardinal Law had become the emblem of the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed and forced change on the American Roman Catholic church, the target of outrage and calls for reform.

Catholic church adopts new policy, but stops short of zero tolerance for abusive priests.

One crucial issue Cardinal Ratzinger had to resolve was how to handle the church's internal disciplinary procedures for abusive priests.

Stephen Rossetti, a psychologist at Catholic University who has screened seminarians and once headed a treatment center for abusive priests, said the screening could be "very intrusive".

Egan's attempt to shift the accountability for abusive priests prompted an indignant rebuttal from officials at the institute, who, in effect, accused Egan and other Church officials of bad faith.

Father Greeley had been an early and vehement advocate for victims of abusive priests at least since 1989, when he began writing articles in Chicago newspapers demanding that the church take action against pedophile priests.

Both the pope's brief stint as a bishop in Germany 30 years ago and his quarter-century as a top Vatican official are being scoured for records of abusive priests whom he failed to stop, and each case seems to strengthen the indictment.

But Catholic officials as well as advocates for victims of abusive priests agreed that the multiple defamation suits appear to be early salvos in a counteroffensive by some of the hundreds of priests who have been accused of sexual crimes this year.

And he apologized for the behavior of abusive priests.

He also introduced fast-track rules for defrocking abusive priests and stressed that bishops must report abuse.