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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops continues its meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss changes to the bishops' proposed new policy for dealing with sexually abusive priests. The Vatican seeks revisions to items it says conflict with church law. NPR's Duncan Moon reports.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets this week in Washington, D.C. Topping the agenda is the issue of Vatican-inspired revisions to the charter against sexual abuse that the bishops signed in Dallas last June. NPR's Duncan Moon reports.

Storyteller Kevin Kling tells of a day on the ball field. This small tale grows to such epic proportions that it would make Homer proud.

A juvenile court judge in Fairfax County, Va., rules that Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspect Lee Malvo, 17, can be tried as an adult for the murder of an FBI analyst. He and another suspect are implicated in 12 other fatal shootings. The ruling makes Malvo eligible for the death penalty. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Authorities link a September shooting in Clinton, Md., to sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. Two Virginia courts will be the first to try the men held in a series of shootings and killings in the Washington, D.C. area and the Deep South. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

NPR's Melissa Block profiles FOUND magazine, an occasionally-published journal filled with found notes, photos and audio sent in from all over the nation. See some of the found items she discovered with other "finders" on a recent scavenging mission in Washington, D.C., and other ephemera from the pages of FOUND.

Newly discovered poems from the 3rd century B.C. by the Greek poet Posidippus are causing a stir in the academic world. The poems were written on a papyrus that turned up inside a mummy casing. They'd been recycled, turned into a kind of paper mache mask for the body. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Kathryn Gutzwiller, classics professor at the University of Cincinnati, who reads some of the newly found poems and explains the significance of the finding.

Catholic bishops are gathering in Washington, D.C., to vote on a policy on priests who sexually abuse children. The latest draft includes revisions by the Vatican. Survivors of abuse say the revisions will make it harder for the bishops to fight abuse. Commentator Hugh Burns, a Catholic priest, says bishops who assigned pedophilic priests to their parishes should be held just as responsible for sexual abuse as the priests themselves.

Federal authorities transfer custody of Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to Virginia. The two will face trial separately in state court in two different counties. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

In a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military tribunals for some Guantanamo detainees. Duke University's Scott Silliman tells Susan Stamberg that the Bush administration will now have to go back to the drawing board to find a solution for the detainees.