{"id":309232,"date":"2026-10-18T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309232\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:16:46","slug":"diocese-of-erie-suspends-erie-catholic-football-program-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309232\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Erie Suspends Erie Catholic Football Program | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie Catholic School System&#8217;s football season should be heading into the playoffs, but the Diocese of Erie said the program has been suspended following an internal review.<\/p>\n<p>According to the diocese, the review found that policies governing the football program were not being followed.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say an 8-year-old girl played tackle football throughout the season, despite rules prohibiting girls from participating in the program.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese also emphasized that child protection requirements, including mandatory policies for those who work with minors, must be followed.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"football.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"720\" height=\"318\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Officials said they recognize the disappointment the suspension has caused for student-athletes and their families.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the diocese added that activities may resume once it verifies the program is in compliance with all applicable policies and child protection requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie Catholic School System&#8217;s football season should be heading into the playoffs, but the Diocese of Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[92273,4052,136,49665,138,137,126662,126663,57360,36526,30625],"class_list":["post-309232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-child-protection","tag-diocese-of-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-catholic-school-system","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-football-program-suspension","tag-gender-rules","tag-internal-review","tag-school-policy","tag-student-athletes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}