Bishops agree to audit

A committee of Catholic bishops and a lay National Review Board agreed Monday on a proposal to audit U.S. dioceses to help keep more children from being sexually abused by priests.

The accord, agreed to during a meeting in Chicago, appeared to end months of acrimony between the bishops and the 12-member review board, appointed two years ago to clean up sex abuse by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops still must approve the proposal during its meeting next month near Denver.