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Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ...YOUR VIEWSYour recent story "Pope tightens reins on bishops," (July 24) read in part...Thursday's move. They see the bishop's conference as a bulwark against local...the Catholic Church. The bishops are ...

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