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The group plans to draft and ratify a set of grievances, which will then be presented to the U.S. government. The group warns if politicians don't act, they will reconvene to run a set of candidates who pledge to redress those grievances.

Cardinal Justin Rigali announced his retirement Tuesday, a few months after a scathing report found that the archdiocese failed to investigate child sexual abuse claims and retained more than 30 priests in ministry despite credible allegations of abuse.

In Philadelphia, 21 Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse of minors slipped through the cracks. But with all the safeguards the Roman Catholic Church put into place after the sex abuse scandal in 2002, how could this happen? It turns out that there's a lot of play in those rules.

Philadelphia's archbishop announced the suspension of 21 priests who were named as child molestation suspects in a recent grand jury report. A canon lawyer says the archdiocese's moves mark a historic moment in the church abuse scandal. But the leader of a victims' group calls it "only a very partial first step."