Harrisburg (PA)
Penn Live
August 9, 2018
By Ivey DeJesus
One of the Catholic dioceses at the center of a long-awaited report on predatory priests in Pennsylvania on Thursday announced it had placed on leave a priest accused of child sexual abuse.
In a lengthy report released Thursday, the Diocese of Greensburg said it has removed the Rev. James W. Clark from his ministry post back in June amid allegations dating back 50 years.
The diocese made the announcement about Clark in the release of a report updating its youth protection policies, and it pledged to release the names of priests accused of child sexual abuse on the day the report is made public.
“The same day the grand jury report is made public, we will release a list of clergy in our Diocese with credible allegations against them on our website,” the Diocese of Greensburg stated in its report, entitled “2018 Progress Update on Protection of Children: Higher Standards of Today’s Catholic Church.”
The diocese pledged continued transparency with regards to any allegations of child sexual abuse and aggressiveness towards reporting predatory priests to law enforcement. The Greensburg Diocese also apologizes for past mishandling of abusive priests and allegations from victims.
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