After days of outside criticism of their commitment to ridding the church of sexual abusers, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops insist their reform plan remains on track.

After days of outside criticism of their commitment to ridding the church of sexual abusers, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops insist their reform plan remains on track. And they got a strategic boost from prominent Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Bennett, a member of the National Review Board, a lay monitoring panel whose chairman quit in disgust Monday.