An Office for Child and Youth
Protection to assist dioceses/eparchies in implementing “safe environment”
programs and to produce an annual public report on the progress made in
implementing the Charter standards.
A National Review Board to assist
and monitor the Office and approve the annual report on the implementation
of the Charter before the report is submitted to the President of the United
States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published.
Two studies to be commissioned
by the National Review Board to help understand the problem of child sexual
abuse by clergy more fully and to enhance the effectiveness of their response.
A restructured Ad Hoc Committee
on Sexual Abuse to include representation from all the episcopal regions
into which the membership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
is divided.
In addition, the bishops asked
their Conference President to inform the Holy See of the Charter to indicate
the manner in which the bishops, together with the entire Church in the
United States, intend to address the crisis.