Online Edition - December 2004 - January 2005Vol. X No. 9 Bishops Send Mixed Signals at USCCB Meeting by Helen Hull HitchcockThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops "is likely to be a much different conference five or ten years from now", predicted out-going president, Bishop Wilton Gregory of Belleville, in his final address to his brother bishops at their annual plenary meeting in Washington, DC, November 13-17. Bishop Gregory presided over a conference divided and damaged by sex-abuse scandals, the resulting resignations of several bishops, the defrocking of priests, millions of dollars spent to settle lawsuits -- including the...