The Harrisburg Diocese on Wednesday has scheduled a news conference and is expected to announce the filing of bankruptcy, sources told PennLive.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is also reporting of the diocese’s plans to file for bankruptcy, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The Harrisburg Diocese would become the latest member of the worldwide Catholic Church to face financial reckoning for misdeeds involving child sexual abuse.

The press conference is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

The 15-county Harrisburg Diocese two years ago was cited in an 18-month statewide grand jury investigation. The 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury led by Attorney General Josh Shapiro uncovered in horrific details a widespread and systemic culture of child sex crimes on the part of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Diocese was one of six dioceses investigated.

As of December, Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses had paid nearly $84 million to 564 victims of sexual abuse.

In filing for Chapter 11 protection, Harrisburg would join the ranks of about two dozen Catholic dioceses across the country that have sought bankruptcy protection amid the clergy sex abuse scandal.

PennLive will cover the news conference and update this developing story.