Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced charges today against Daniel Sansky, the former fleet manager for the Scranton School District....
Heads understandably turned at last week's meeting of the Scranton School District Board of Education: two plainclothes investigators from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General were on hand to discreetly take notes. Why were they there? Informed observers believe it is linked to the investigation requested by the school board back in January. Directors took the move after Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released a scathing performance audit of the district's finance and operations. DePasquale said his 2017 performance audit of the Scranton School District, Lackawanna County, shows serious financial instability and an extreme level of board and administrative staff dysfunction rarely observed...
Rev. James Timlin, the embattled former bishop of the Diocese of Scranton, drew another rebuke this week from Catholic higher education. Sister Mary Persico, IHM, Ed.D, President of Marywood University, announced that the school was rescinding an honorary degree and medal previously presented to Timlin....
The Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., the recently returned president of the University of Scranton, released a statement yesterday rescinding honorary degrees and renaming buildings that had been designated in honor of the three bishops accused of covering up sexual abuse by priests in the Diocese of Scranton. ...
James Timlin served as Bishop of the Diocese of Scranton from 1984 to 2003. In the twelves months before he retired, ten priests were removed from the parishes due to abuse allegations and the diocese faced federal lawsuits. Tuesday's grand jury report revealed that Timlin covered up the rape and abortion of a minor child. In 2003, the bishop declined an invitation to attend the commencement ceremonies of the University of Scranton. Reason? He publicly criticized the Jesuit school for inviting television host Chris Matthews to speak at the event. He described Matthews as an abortion-rights advocate and refused to share...
On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Attorney General released a grand jury report documenting seven decades of child sexual abuse in the Keystone State's Roman Catholic churches. Over 300 accused priests are listed by name. The grand jury alleges that church leaders, the Diocese of Scranton among them, covered up the scope and frequency of these crimes to protect abusers and the church's reputation. The report, the result of a two year investigation, is the first of its kind to examine abuse in the Catholic Church on a statewide level. It reviewed 500,000 pages of documents turned over by the Dioceses of Allentown,...