PENNSYLVANIA
The Morning Call
May 21, 2018
Tim Darragh
Of The Morning Call
The release of a report detailing decades of sexual abuse within six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses, including Allentown, was cleared Monday after two other dioceses gave up legal challenges.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Monday that the dioceses of Greensburg and Harrisburg were backing off legal challenges that could have possibly blocked release of the report.
“Today, in a reversal of their position, the bishops and dioceses of Greensburg and Harrisburg agreed to make public the results of a grand jury investigation of widespread sexual abuse within the Catholic church,” Shapiro said in a statement.
He commended Greensburg Bishop Edward Malesic and Harrisburg Bishop Ronald Gainer “for doing the right thing.”
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