HARRISBURG (PA)Penn Live
Feb 12, 2019
By Jana Benscoter
A Manheim Township couple who has stopped attending Mass said they don’t believe the leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg when he speaks.
Central Pennsylvania’s diocese has scheduled listening sessions to atone their role in the Catholic Church’s clergy sexual abuse scandal. The fourth session was held at St. Leo the Great Parish in Lancaster County on Tuesday evening. Another session is scheduled Wednesday in St. Joseph Parish in Mechanicsburg.
Harrisburg’s Diocese earlier Tuesday announced its establishment of a victim’s compensation fund, which is why Claire Rennie, 60, said she attended the Lancaster listening session. She said her husband was abused in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese.
She thinks it’s insulting, she added, that Bishop Ronald W. Gainer deflects questions and avoids providing sincere answers.
“We hear the church abused you, the bishop covered it up, you don’t get statute of limitation,” she said..
The couple has been married for over 30 years, but Rennie said she only learned of her husband’s childhood nightmare a year ago.
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