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<p>The archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis apparently doesn't think his flock has anything to learn from a man who travels throughout the country to deliver a message of love.</p> <p>Mel White, a national leader in attempting to make Christian churches more hospitable to gays, was to have given the homily at the 9 and 11 a.m. masses at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in south Minneapolis Sunday. But on Monday, St. Joan officials telephoned White to tell him that Archbishop Harry Flynn was forbidding him to use the St. Joan's pulpit.</p>

Restructured Committee on Sexual Abuse Announced WASHINGTON (September 5, 2002) –- Belleville Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), announced today the restructuring of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse (AHCSA) and its new membership. At their June 13-15 meeting in Dallas, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as part of their "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," voted that "the membership of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse will be reconstituted to include representation" from each of the fourteen episcopal regions into which the nation's dioceses and...