THE CONTEXT

The Harrisburg Diocese has launched its “listening session” series planned for parishes across Central Pa. The events are a response to last summer’s grand jury report alleging decades of systematically concealed sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy throughout Pennsylvania. About 250 people went to the first session on Friday night.

Earlier that day, a Jefferson County judge sentenced a priest for corruption of minors and child endangerment. The charges were a result of the grand jury investigation.

News also just broke that the Philadelphia Archdiocese has put a priest on leave for allegedly molesting a child 20 years ago.

Safe2Say Something — Pa.’s anonymous reporting system for schools — goes live today across the state. The hope is that students, teachers, parents and others will use the system to report signs of abuse, troubling behaviors and other concerns. Anne Danahy did a story about it for WPSU.

Two counties are launching a new program to try to help women who are addicted to opioids and who are pregnant or new mothers. “Healthy MOMS” will connect women with providers of prenatal and postpartum care, behavioral health, addiction treatment and other services in Lackawanna and Susquehanna counties. Their rate of hospitalized infants born dependent on drugs has been double the state average for the last couple years, according to this story about the initiative.

A panel of judges ruled recently that the DEP unlawfully issued air-quality permits for Sunoco’s natural gas plant at Marcus Hook in Delaware County. They’ve ordered the state to re-do its emissions analysis, taking issue with the fact that regulators should have treated the plant as a single entity instead of treating sections of it as separate, independent ones. In the meantime, the company can keep operating. StateImpact Pennsylvania has the full story.