PENNSYLVANIA
We Are Central PA
[with video]
Christian Heilman
PHILIPSBURG — Sunday was the first service at Saints Peter and Paul in Philipsburg since the diocese placed Father Robert Kelly on leave. Parishioners are trying to understand what happened.
Mass started at 10 AM Sunday as parishioners filed into church. This time, a different priest was overseeing the service.
We talked with half a dozen people leaving church about Father Robert Kelly. They all said the same thing — that Father Kelly was a kind, intelligent man and they don’t believe he did anything wrong.
We spoke to a mother with children who said she had no reason to worry about Father Kelly.
No one wanted to speak on camera. During the service, Father John Gibbons told parishioners not to speak to the media.
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