An online petition seeks to have Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s name removed from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry Township.
The petition on Change.org had about 1,600 signatures as of 6 a.m. Thursday. By 10 a.m., there were more than 2,100.
The petition was created following the release Tuesday of a state grand jury report on sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania’s Catholic organizations. Wuerl’s name appears more than 100 times in the report, repeatedly described as dealing with accused priests by relocating them.
The high school was renamed after Wuerl when it relocated to Butler County in 2014.
The petition- which online say it was started by ‘NC Alumni’- states, “After the news of the sexual abuse issue within the diocese has been made public, a Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse faults Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former longtime bishop of Pittsburgh, over his handling of abusive priests. This does not deserve to have a prestigous school named after him. This will directly impact students currently enrolled in the school, but will also impact the legacy of the school. Not to mention, those that were hurt while he looked away.”
Several people have wrote comments after signing the petition, including Megan Fialkovich.
“There can be no recompense for all the victims, but the very least we can do is strip Wuerl of any vestiges of honor for his active role in protecting these sub-human creatures, and his complicity in allowing these activities to continue,” Fialkovich writes.
“Our alma mater should not be disgraced with his name,” Mindy Neill writes.
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