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WASHINGTON, DC, Sep 20, 02 (CWNews.com) - The US bishops' conference will not vote on a proposal to hold an extraordinary plenary council when the bishops meet in November.Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a spokesman for the conference, said the executive committee decided that the idea needed more study and was not ready to be presented to the full bishops' conference at its November meeting. Several US bishops had proposed over the summer to hold a plenary council, the first since the 19th century, at which the bishops could re-affirm Church teaching on sexuality and priestly celibacy and examine the root...

Catholic bishops callfor rare councilWant unified reaffirmation of moral teachings, last such plenary 1884 Posted: August 10, 20021:00 a.m. Eastern By Mary Jo Anderson© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com A scandal-weary U.S. Catholic Church continues to battle the homosexual clergy crisis. Eight American bishops have called for a controversial and seldom-used plenary council to seek a unified means to reaffirm Catholic moral teachings. A plenary council is the highest-level council possible for a national conference of bishops. No such council has been held in the United States since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884. In a confidential letter dated July 18, the eight...