Erie’s Persico ‘disappointed’ with Delay on Abuse Votes

By Ed Palattella
GoErie.com
November 13, 2018

http://www.goerie.com/news/20181113/eries-persico-disappointed-with-delay-on-abuse-votes

Bishop is at national meeting of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which planned to vote on new measures until the Vatican said to wait.

Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico said he was ready to act on the clergy abuse crisis when he met with his colleagues at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ national meeting in Baltimore this week.

On Monday, those efforts slowed — the result of action from the Vatican rather than from Persico and his American counterparts.

“I was disappointed when we were told this morning that we are not to vote on several items we had on our agenda,” Persico said in a statement that the Catholic Diocese of Erie released.