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The Catholic bishops of Pennsylvania issued a joint statement Thursday indicating that the dispensation from the obligation to attend mass, which went...

ERIE —The emotional and long-term costs to victims are most often incalculable in cases of clergy sex abuse, but the abuse scandal has produced a doll...

ERIE — Bishop Lawrence Persico announced Friday that individuals are no longer required to wear a mask when in church, but urged the non-vaccinated to...

On May 25, George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed African American man, died after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used his knee to pin h...

ERIE — In an effort to create a sense of unity and to help Christians observe some of the holiest days of the year appropriately while unable to atten...

Various churches in the Bradford area are taking a cautious approach to worship but still plan on holding services this weekend. Both Open Arms church...

ERIE (AP) — The Roman Catholic bishop of Erie has announced the opening of the canonization process for Gertrude Barber, founder of what is now called...

Bishop Lawrence Persico of the Erie Diocese has a message to parishioners: The sex abuse scandal must be remembered, and the changes that came from it...

The Catholic Diocese of Erie continues to experience financial ramifications from the clergy sex abuse crisis, including the Pennsylvania attorney gen...

ERIE — The Diocese of Erie has updated its list of attorneys willing to represent claimants to its Independent Survivors’ Reparation Program. At the s...

The Diocese of Erie has launched the Independent Survivors’ Reparation Program to administer a fund for the benefit of survivors of sexual abuse. The ...

Clergy abuse survivor Jim VanSickle has a message to deliver, and he’s taking it to the Vatican next week. VanSickle, a Bradford native who suffered a...

After 139 years as a Catholic institution of learning, St. Bernard School is closing its doors at the end of the current school year. The announcement...

Former Bradford Central Christian teacher David Poulson was sentenced Friday in Jefferson County Court to 2 ½ to 14 years in state prison for his repe...

The Diocese of Erie has removed from public ministry a priest who once served in Port Allegany and was an administrator in Emporium. The diocese annou...

Recommending “bold, decisive and collaborative action,” on Thursday, Erie’s Bishop Lawrence Persico called for a compensation fund for victim/survivor...

ERIE — Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico has presided over a sweeping internal investigation of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Erie...

ERIE — Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico has presided over a sweeping internal investigation of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Erie...

Michael Amy, Salvatore Luzzi, Samuel Slocum, Joseph Jerge, Giles Nealen, WIlliam Presley, Stephen Jeselnick, David Poulson — these natives of, or form...

Five years after his conviction for having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage boy, former Bradford priest Samuel Slocum has been defrocked b...