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Associated Press "This gives a signal that we are very, very serious in our commitment to promote safe environments and to offer an adequate response to abuse," said Monsignor Charles Scicluna, a Vatican doctrinal official who helped revise the norms. "If more changes are needed, they will be made."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Garry Hayes, a geology teacher at Modesto City College in Modesto, Calif., opposes a proposed measure carried by a state senator that would strip the serpentine rock of it's status as the official state rock citing that serpentinite, as it is formally known, can contain asbestos.
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Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., accompanied by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 15, 2010, to discuss financial reform legislation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, left, gestures during a press conference along with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, right, at the state Capitol in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 15, 2010. The governor said 71,500 jobs have been added in Virginia since February. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Yahya Wehelie, from Fairfax, Virginia, walks in downtown Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Mr. Wehelie, 26, of Burke, Va., has been stuck in Egypt for more than two months but is now expected to arrive in New York Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Archeologists, center, take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Archeologists Elizabeth Meade, left, and Molly McDonald take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Archeologists Elizabeth Meade, top, and Molly McDonald take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site on Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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An archeologist holds a leather sole found buried alongside an 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Shahram Amiri, center, an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared a year ago, holds his 7-year-old son Amir Hossein at the conclusion of his news briefing as he arrived at the Imam Khomeini airport just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Mr. Amiri claimed Thursday he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran's allegations he was abducted by American agents. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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The home at 4901 46th St. NW in American University Park is on the market for $1,075,000. Built in 1924, it has been expanded with a family-room addition with a vaulted ceiling.
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The home at 4901 46th St. NW in American University Park is on the market for $1,075,000. Built in 1924, it has been expanded with a family-room addition with a vaulted ceiling.The home at 4901 46th St. NW in American University Park is on the market for $1,075,000. Built in 1924, it has been expanded with a family-room addition with a vaulted ceiling.The kitchen features white counters, cabinets and appliances. It has hardwood flooring, two pantries, a gas stove and recessed lighting. There is a breakfast area nearby.
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Jon Reeve, manager at Dan's Fan City, is seen at the store in Rockville, Md. on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Ceiling fans can provide an energy-efficient supplement to air conditioning during these hot summer months. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Jon Reeve, manager at Dan's Fan City, is seen at the store in Rockville, Md. on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Ceiling fans can provide an energy-efficient supplement to air conditioning during these hot summer months. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS The program "was not intended as a bailout for Wall Street," said Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel. "It was intended to support ... homeownership, retirement savings and banks across the country."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin announced Wednesday they are engaged, telling US Weekly magazine they will soon become a traditional family unit after a yearlong separation.
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In this Thursday, July 1, 2010, photo, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert talks with local Salt Lake City radio host Tony Yapias about immigration and other issues facing Utah. (AP Photo /Deseret News, Brian Nicholson)
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Gary Phaneuf of Staten Island is escorted from a Landmarks Commission hearing on a controversial proposal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center, after causing a disturbance at the hearing Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference announcing the indictment of six more New Orleans Police officers in the Danziger Bridge shooting and cover-up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, is seen at right. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Michael DeMocker)
