PENNSYLVANIA
Sharon Herald
August 11, 2018
By Lynn Saternow
As a former altar boy at Notre Dame Parish in Hermitage, I await the release of the church scandal report with great anticipation.
My brother Paul and I were part of the first altar-boy class at the parish, when church services were conducted in the recently built school gym. It was the Catholic policy to build the parochial schools first, then the church.
Those were the days of the Latin masses. So we didn’t have it as easy as many kids do today; and the late Msgr. Robert Schriefer was a stern taskmaster in the early days of his long tenure.
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