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Keystone Crossroads

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Protesters gathered in the Capitol to call on Wolf for further action. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Activists renew call to shut down Berks immigrant detention center

Pennsylvania DHS already declined to renew the center's federal license, but a federal judge ordered it reinstated.

7 years ago

Parishioners receive communion at Holy Infancy Roman Catholic in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, part of the Allentown Diocese. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Allentown priest charged with sexual assault of high school student

Updated: 3:59 p.m. Lehigh County prosecutors have charged a catholic priest from the Allentown Diocese with assa ...

7 years ago

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Berks County Representative Mark Rozzi is pushing a bill that would extend Pennsylvania's statute of limitations and open a window for retroactive lawsuits. It has stalled several times. (WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

In wake of clergy abuse report, a likely legislative fight brews in Pa.

Early responses indicate some of the most significant reforms will still face roadblocks.

7 years ago

State College borough planning director Ed LeClear in front of one of the houses sold through the Neighborhood Sustainability Program.
(EMILY REDDY / WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Unique housing program combats ‘studentification’ in neighborhoods surrounding Penn State

It’s a short walk from the municipal building in downtown State College where Ed LeClear works as borough planning director to a two-st ...

7 years ago

Listen 5:34
Barb Williamson runs a drug recovery house in Bucks County. She recently changed her policy after complaints that she wasn't admitting people who use medication-assisted treatments such as Suboxone. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

On front lines of opioid crisis, recovery houses slowly accepting contested treatment approach

Patients using medication-assisted treatments slowly being accepted into group recovery homes.

7 years ago

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Former priest James Faluszczak, who says he was molested by a priest as a teenager, reacts as Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Former priest with insider view among the 1,000 victims in Pa. clergy abuse report

James Faluszczak quit the priesthood in 2014, and he’s one of dozens of witnesses who testified before the grand jury about their experiences of abuse.

7 years ago

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Monsignor Francis Schoenauer reads a letter from Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert during Sunday mass at the Cathedral Church of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown, Pa. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Catholics in Allentown grapple with clergy abuse report and their church’s response

Some parishioners were heartened by Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert's message. Others struggled more with the allegations, the response, and how they feel about their church.

7 years ago

A Republican state senate policy committee hosted a roundtable discussion about school safety in Williamsport on August 16, 2018. (Min Xian / Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Central Pa. districts discuss ways to improve school safety with new state funding

At the roundtable, lawmakers and school officials agreed the school safety needs of different school districts can vary greatly.

7 years ago

Pope Francis, shown here in May
(Andrew Medichini/AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pope condemns reported sex abuse by priests in Pennsylvania

Vatican condemns sex abuse described in Pennsylvania grand jury report, says Pope Francis is on victims' side.

7 years ago

A new report out of Penn State University says corn production in the Southeastern part of the state could be especially vulnerable in the coming decades. (Photo provided by Greg Roth/Penn State)
Keystone Crossroads
Science

Ahead of climate change projections, some Pa. farmers make adaptations to new weather patterns

For many farmers in the state, last month's intense precipitation is part of a pattern of weather changes of which they are trying to adapt.

7 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf
Keystone Crossroads
Education

New Pa. school safety funding on track for March 2019

The funds are part of a bipartisan bill signed into law in the months after the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17 people.

7 years ago

Arthur Baselice Jr. poses with a photo of his son, Arthur Baselice III, who was abused by two Franciscan clergymen in Northeast Philadelphia. Baselice III died of a drug overdose in 2006 at age 28.
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Father of son abused by clergy falls deeper into ‘dark hole’ in wake of new report

For victims and their families, having these reports come to light can be a vindication, but there are also a lot of difficult emotions that can be a struggle to process.

7 years ago

Listen 6:57
Parishioners pray the Rosary at Holy Infancy Roman Catholic in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania after mass on Tuesday, August 14, 2018, the same day, Pennsylvania Attorney General released his two-year grand jury investigation into widespread sexual abuse and cover-up within six Catholic dioceses across the state. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. grand jury interim report on clergy child sexual abuse is public. What’s next?

More than 300 “predator priests” allegedly sexually abused over one thousand victims in six Pennsylva ...

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro says more charges await following an investigation into decades of cases of the Catholic clergy sexually abusing children.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Report details 1,000 victims of child sexual abuse by 300 ‘predator priests’ across Pa.

The roughly 900 page report, paints a horrid portrait of activity that occurred in the dioceses of Scranton, Allentown, Harrisburg, Greensburg, Erie and Pittsburgh.

7 years ago

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The Most Rev. Ronald Gainer, the Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., discusses child sexual abuse by clergy and a decision by the diocese to remove names of bishops going back to the 1940s after concluding they did not respond adequately to abuse allegations, during a Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, news conference in Harrisburg, Pa. The bishop apologized to victims and said the diocese is posting an online list of 71 priests and others in the church accused of the abuse. Following the Erie, Pa., diocese, the Harrisburg diocese is the second Pennsylvania diocese to get ahead of a roughly 900-page grand jury report that could be made public in August 2018, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said found more than 300
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pennsylvania Catholic church abuse report to be released

Time is ticking down to a court-ordered deadline Tuesday afternoon to decide what information to black out in a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse

7 years ago

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