Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown
[8] In 1899, in the face of rapid growth of the Catholic population of western Pennsylvania, Bishop Richard Phelan of Pittsburgh and Archbishop Patrick John Ryan of Philadelphia asked the Vatican to create a new diocese in the region.[10] In Garvey's first full year as bishop in 1902, the new diocese contained 59 priests, 44 parishes, 23 parochial schools with 6,000 students, and a Catholic population of 44,000.McCort laid the cornerstone for the new Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in May 1926 but construction temporarily came to a halt in 1929 due to the stock market crash.[15] By the time of McCort's death in 1936, the Diocese of Altoona had 197 priests, 129 churches, 111 parishes, 50 parochial schools, and a Catholic population that had fallen to 100,634 during the Great Depression.[21] His replacement in Altoona-Johnstown was Auxiliary Bishop James John Hogan of the Diocese of Trenton, selected by Pope Paul VI in 1966.In September 2014, American authorities charged Reverend Joseph D. Maurizo Jr. from Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish in Somerset County with possession of child pornography and molesting boys at an orphanage in Honduras.[27] In September, 2015, Maurizo was convicted on sex abuse, possession of child pornography, and illegally transferring money to Honduras to pay his victims."[34][37] In his grand jury testimony, Bishop Bartchak acknowledged that the diocese between the 1950s and 1990s transferred dozens of priests accused of child abuse to small town parishes.[37] The Pennsylvania Attorney General was unable to pursue criminal charges in many cases because the statute of limitations had elapsed[39] Many of those listed by the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown as priests with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors are now deceased.[40] In August 2019, the Pennsylvania Superior Court denied the diocese's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed a priest consistently molested her in the 1970s and ’80s in Blair County.
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