Fr. Salvatore P. Luzzi
Name included on Erie diocese’s list released 4/6/2018. Noted to be forbidden to function as a priest. Faculty member, Venango Christian High 1962-1968. Pastor 1979-1995 of St. Joseph’s in Warren, PA. Sick Leave 7/1994-2/1995; sent to St. Luke’s Institute in MD. Faculties removed 9/15/1995. Named in 8/14/1918 PA Grand Jury Report. Eight known male victims, from early teens to early twenties. One, a former student, died by suicide. Accused in a lawsuit of abuse of a young man, ages 18-19, in 1978 or 1979, while assigned to St. Mark’s Seminary. The young man was a seminarian and Luzzi was his spiritual director. Settled in 11/2019 in the low six figures.
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