Last year, the Cleveland Diocese announced that it had found 28 priests with credible accusations against them and that 15 remained in the ministry.

The policy adopted by the Conference of Bishops requires that all priests facing credible accusations of abuse be immediately removed from ministry.

(Baltimore himself is not accused of fraud, but of cavalierly dismissing credible accusations.)

The survey did not ask how many dioceses had suspended or barred from ministering priests with credible accusations of sexual abuse against them.

The norms say a priest should be removed on the basis of a "credible accusation" without clarifying what that is.

But there haven't been any comparably credible accusations against Democratic voter-registration organizations.

The aides also said they found the captain's accusations credible enough to warrant investigation.

Bishop Murphy's letter said that he had permanently suspended nine priests who had been the subject of credible accusations.

Although the Government won a decisive military victory there were credible accusations of brutality and extrajudicial methods.

The first might deal with the dates of credible accusations - and uninvestigated accusations should be counted as credible.