Erie bishop publicizes priest dismissals

A brief notice in a recent edition of the Catholic Diocese of Erie's newspaper signals a new diocesan policy. Bishop Lawrence Persico is publicizing the names of priests who, from now on, have been permanently dismissed from the priesthood for disciplinary reasons or removed from active clerical duty for reasons related to wrongdoing.

The notice, in the March 5 edition of Faith Life, the diocese's biweekly newspaper, states that Pope Francis has dismissed a former priest in the diocese, Samuel B. Slocum, 65.

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