Vatican City -- Chicago's archbisho...

Vatican City -- Chicago's archbishop Cardinal Francis George warned that the freedom of the meeting-house in the United States "is now threatened by the agency of movements within" and "by conduct and groups outside."

Cardinal George delivered this sober assessment to John Paul II during the late visit to Rome by bishops from the ecclesiastical provinces of Chicago, Indianapolis and Milwaukee, "The Church's mission is threatened externally by means of an erosion of institutional freedom." "The scandal of the sexual abuse of