BOSTON -- Members of a task force formed by Cardinal Bernard Law pledged at their first meeting Saturday to produce a public report on ways to protect children from sexual abuse by priests.

Law formed the Cardinal's Commission for the Protection of Children and selected its 15 members after it was revealed that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston had transferred a priest accused of pedophilia from parish to parish.

"There can be and there has to be improvement," said task force chairwoman Maureen Bateman. "Clearly what was in place was not sufficient."