A History of the National Review Board

Promise to Protect, Pledge to Heal: A History of the National Review Board by Michael R. Merz

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned this history in November, 2009, “to serve as an internal chronology” of the National Review Board.  Its intended audience is present and future members of the Board, the Bishops’ Committee on Child and Youth Protection, and members and staff of the Conference.

Because of a policy of rotating NRB members, there were no members in 2009 whose personal memories covered the entire history of the Board.  Those changes, as well as appointment of new bishops and new members of the CPCYP and staff at the Conference make this history necessary.  Hopefully it will be useful as an index to the people who have served on the NRB, the issues they have confronted, and their interactions with the Conference and its bishop members.

A History of the National Review Board