Denver Newsroom, Jun 29, 2021 / 17:01 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts has announced the appointment of two social workers to lead an independent task force responding to sex abuse.
Bishop William Byrne, who took the helm in Springfield in Dec. 2020, announced Monday that clinical social worker Irene Woods and Orlando Isaza, a social worker and community activist would co-chair the task force. The goal of the task force is to draft a report on how the diocese can better respond to cases of sex abuse.
The task force had originally been chaired by retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Daniel Ford.
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Holy Week services return to churches closed last Easter by COVID
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
Posted Mar 01, 2021
St. Michael s Parish in East Longmeadow will offer Holy Week services on site that will also be live streamed. (Photo by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Special to The Republican)
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Last April, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield marked Easter morning with the ringing of steeple bells as Masses were suspended and churches closed mid-way through Lent by the diocese in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Practicing Catholics in the four counties of Western Massachusetts that the diocese covers were advised at the time that Bishop Mitchell Rozanski would celebrate the televised “Chalice of Salvation” Mass Easter Sunday on WWLP Channel 22.