REWRITE OF ABUSE POLICY CLOUDS BISHOPS' MEETING.(MAIN)

Byline: RICHARD N. OSTLING Associated Press

America's Roman Catholic bishops meet in Washington this week, hoping to put nearly a year of sex scandals behind them by approving a revised policy to get rid of molesters in the clergy. Abuse victims worry that the plan, which seems likely to pass, retreats from church leaders' earlier promises.

The gathering of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a regularly scheduled biannual meeting, but like the bishops' June session in Dallas, the dominant issue will be the sex abuse crisis that has put the church in the national spotlight.

The week's major task is to vote on a rewrite of the reform rules …