One year after a Pennsylvania grand jury released a shocking report on child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy members, the Diocese of Pittsburgh continues to take steps to combat the scourge.

On Tuesday, Bishop David Zubik announced the diocese selected Ethics Point as a third-party reporting system to allow parishioners, church employees and volunteers to report suspected misconduct of a personal, financial or professional nature.

The system will be available through a hotline and online and, most importantly, enable reports to be submitted anonymously.

The diocese also picked Monaca-based investigative firm CSI to staff its Office for Investigations and Monitoring, and named Sister Anna Marie Gaglia of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden as the diocesan victim assistance coordinator.

The announcement comes a week after a former Middlesex Township priest was placed on administrative leave due to accusations he sexually abused a minor in the 1990s.

In May, a chaplain at Cranberry Township and Zelienople parishes was placed on leave.

It’s taken a full year for the diocese to take this action after the grand jury’s report, which discovered some 300 priests were accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children in six of the state’s eight dioceses.

The Boston Globe first released its report in 2002 on Boston’s Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. That was 17 years ago.

Had the church all those years ago set up the type of hotline it announced this week for Pennsylvania, it could have possibly prevented predator priests from additional abuse, addressed victims’ needs sooner and minimized the amount of damage.

Regarding the Pittsburgh diocese’s initiatives, it’s good the process of reporting misconduct is being updated.

It’s also good the system will allow people to report misconduct anonymously.

An August report found the state’s Safe2Say Something program fielded 23,000 tips during 2019’s first half.

The school safety reporting system allows students, teachers and parents to anonymously submit tips about dangerous situations — such as violent threats, bullying, self-harm and substance abuse.

Naturally, any reporting system in which people do not give their names possibly allows for other forms of misconduct.

But the Safe2Say report determined that 1,300 tips were pranks, which is only slightly more than 5 percent of the tips received.

So, while the diocese should work to weed out tips not made with serious intent — and prevent others from taking advantage for personal gain — its anonymity will likely improve the chances of people using it.

We hope the diocese’s new measures will help to eradicate the horrors that so many have suffered in silence for decades.