Fr. Gregory F. Loughney
Pastor of Most Holy Trinity in Cresco when arrested in 10/2021 after admitting to police that he intended to meet two teenage boys for sex. Loughney called the police himself after he was caught and filmed in a convenience store parking lot by a man calling himself a “predator catcher”; the man had posed as a 15-year-old boy on a dating app and set up the meeting. Loughney was suspended from active ministry by the Diocese pending the investigation. In a plea agreement in 7/2022 he pleaded no contest to attempted indecent assault and attempted corruption of minors. Loughney was sentenced in 11/2022 to five years’ probation. He was laicized in 2/2024. In 11/2024 he was shown in a Carbondale PA school district blog as presenting at a high school career day the previous month. In 3/2025 he is shown as a registered sex offender in PA on the Megan’s Law website.
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