HARRISBURG (PA)
The Associated Press
August 22, 2018
The Latest on the Roman Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal in Pennsylvania (all times local):
2:55 p.m.
The Roman Catholic pastor of a southwestern Pennsylvania parish has been removed from ministry after the local diocese received what it calls a credible allegation of the sexual abuse of a minor.
Wednesday’s revelation by the Greensburg Diocese comes amid growing fallout from a state grand jury report that accused a succession of church leaders of covering up abuse by 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania since the 1940s.
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