HARRISBURG (PA)
Tribune-Review

August 15, 2018

By Stephen Huba

‘Certain this is over’

The grand jury report said the Rev. George Zirwas, who served at St. Scholastica in Aspinwall from 1991-94, and other priests asked a boy to stand on a bed and remove his clothes as they discussed the image of Christ on the cross. Then they photographed the boy and added his photo to a collection of other teenage boys, according to the report.

One St. Scholastica parishioner said after Wednesday morning mass that she remembered Zirwas as an “odd” man who kept an apartment in Shadyside. The parishioner, who didn’t want to be identified, said a more senior priest allowed Zirwas to offer mass but didn’t allow him to make house calls.

Another parishioner who didn’t want to be named said it was “terrible that it happened,” referring to sexual abuse in general at the church,…