Greensburg Catholic Diocese Bishop Edward C. Malesic has announced a new “Safe Environment Advisory Council that he says will help the diocese “maintain the strongest measures possible to protect from abuse the children and vulnerable adults in its ministries.”
One of the council’s members is Dr. Ralph May, the Chief Clinical Officer at the Community Guidance Center in Indiana. Other advisory council members are retired state trooper Paul DeStefano of Westmoreland County; attorney and parish music minister Kristen Antolini of Fayette County; retired TV news reporter Mary Robb Jackson, who is from outside the diocese; Ellen Katter, a volunteer services manager from Westmoreland County; retired parish business manager Annie Williams of Westmoreland County; St. Vincent College student Christian Davis, who is from Armstrong County; Michael Pry, a continuous improvement director from of Westmoreland County; and Bishop Carl Jones of Westmoreland County.
The advisory council will oversee the upcoming diocesan listening sessions that are being held to give parishioners the opportunity to express their feelings about the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, make observations and offer suggestions. Those sessions begin on Monday at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral Parish in Greensburg. The Indiana County session will be the last of the series, on November 29th from 6:30 to 8:30 at St. Bernard of Clairvaux in Indiana.
