BALTIMORE — The nation's Roman Catholic bishops convened a high-stakes meeting Tuesday under pressure to confront the child sexual abuse crisis that has disillusioned many churchgoers, with one scholar warning: "We find ourselves at a turning point, a critical moment in our history."
US Catholic bishops convene to confront sex-abuse crisis
Scholar: Church at 'critical moment in our history'
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