Greensburg Catholic Diocese Bishop Edward C. Malesic today will begin his “listening session” visits to seven parishes within the diocese, just days after the diocese announced the formation of a Safe Environment Advisory Council that will help facilitate the sessions and advise the church on future actions.
The events are in response to the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report detailing sexual abuse in six dioceses, naming 301 so-called “predator priests” over seventy years.
The initial session today will be at the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral parish in Greensburg. The schedule calls for the bishop to come to Indiana’s St. Bernard of Clairvaux on November 29th. All of the sessions will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 PM except for the October 31st visit to Holy Family parish in West Newton, which is from 1:30 to 3:30.
To help prepare people for the listening sessions, the diocese has published a special edition to “The Catholic Accent”. (See the link below.)
THE SESSION SCHEDULE
- Oct. 22: Blessed Sacrament Cathedral parish, Greensburg
- Oct. 24: St. Therese, Little Flower of Jesus parish, Uniontown
- Oct. 29: St. Margaret Mary parish, Lower Burrell
- Oct. 31: Holy Family parish, West Newton
- Nov. 5: St. Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe parish, Kittanning
- Nov. 8: Mother of Sorrows parish, Murrysville
- Nov. 29: St. Bernard of Clairvaux parish, Indiana
HERE IS THE LINK TO “THE CATHOLIC ACCENT”:
http://issues.catholicaccent.org/publication/?i=518022&p=&pn=#{%22issue_id%22:518022,%22page%22:0}
