PENNSYLVANIA
The Altoona Mirror
March 25, 2013
By Phil Ray (pray@altoonamirror.com) , The Altoona Mirror
When Tess Himes, a parishioner at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Newry, learned Saturday her pastor, Monsignor Anthony B. Little, had been placed on inactive status because of child abuse allegations, she cried “so hard.”
For years, she didn’t attend church, but, Himes said, it was Monsignor Little who “brought me back,” and now she attends church every day.
Himes spoke about the repercussions of Bishop Mark L. Bartchak’s decision this weekend to suspend Little from the active priesthood on Sunday as she was tucking a granddaughter into a car seat outside St. Patrick’s.
She, her mother, Miriam, and more than 150 others had just attended an impromptu rosary service in an effort to show support for the banned priest and to ask for God’s guidance.
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