1.   An archdiocese spokesman said that new church guidelines mandating removal of any abusive priest left them with little choice.

2.   And Gregory said an abusive priest can be forgiven, just not re-employed.

3.   And critics of the policy flatly rejected the notion that banishing an abusive priest to a remote setting is enough to keep him away from children.

4.   And the bishops are expected to offer an apology, not only for the behavior of abusive priests, but also for the mishandling of abusive priests by bishops.

5.   As news of the abuse scandal has spread nationally, Catholic adults increasingly have come forward with youthful memories of abusive priests.

6.   As the Roman Catholic Church struggles with the controversy over sexually abusive priests, the question of how to treat clerics with a history of child molestation looms large.

7.   Barton said prosecutors had not done enough to determine whether there was criminal intent on the part of Law or other supervisors of sexually abusive priests.

8.   Better screening and background checks of seminarians and priests might do more to prevent the problem of abusive priests, said Anna Gomez of Yuma.

9.   Abusive priests who molested one child in the past could continue their ministries under certain circumstances.

10.   But bishops stopped short of mandatory defrocking of abusive priests.