1.   Conservative bishops from the United States, England and Australia were pleased about the stand on homosexuality.

2.   For centuries, conservative bishops gave their blessing to the landowners and generals who ruled Latin America with feudal repression.

3.   In theory, if a conservative bishop wanted to get rid of a theologian at a Catholic college, he now could.

4.   Stanton said he and other conservative bishops had become alarmed in recent years as some bishops, acting individually, ordained gay men and lesbians despite that resolution.

5.   The attrition has been stepped up by a process of favoring conservative bishops over those who identify with the theology of liberation.

6.   They want a separate province composed of conservative U.S. bishops, clergy and parishes headed by a traditionalist presiding bishop.

7.   They have also taken positions on sexual issues that have made allies of the more conservative bishops in England, Australia and the United States.

8.   This kind of nonconfrontational approach by theologically conservative bishops has been profoundly disappointing to many conservatives.

9.   When a leading conservative bishop dismissed the priest who made them public, it intensified the rift.

10.   When a priest reopened the scandal with fresh charges this January, another conservative Austrian bishop dismissed the priest, unleashing another round of in-fighting.