The 2,600-page report of the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse "throws light on a dark period of the past."
"We're very hopeful that significant health reform is going to happen," said Jeff Tieman of the Catholic Health Association.
Catholic social justice organizations, petitioned President Obama to support the formation of an independent commission on the use of torture.
At a press conference in Washington, D.C., two Congressmen urged Obama to forgo rescinding the Bush administration's conscience-protection regulation.
Father Robert J. Cornell died May 10 at St. Norbert Abbey in De Pere, Wis.
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Israel on May 11, the midpoint of his eight-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Migrants and refugees tend to be the first to lose their jobs, in part because "their status is called into question."