HARRISBURG — Eleven Roman Catholic clergy won a state Supreme Court decision Monday to keep their names out of a grand jury report issued earlier this year into decades of sexual abuse by hundreds of priests. The 6-1 court majority said keeping the names and other information secret was, at this point, the only way to protect the priests’ right to reputation under the state constitution.

“We acknowledge that this outcome may be unsatisfying to the public and to victims of the abuse detailed in the report,” wrote Justice Debra Todd for the majority. She said procedures of the state’s Investigating Grand Jury Act created a “substantial risk” that their reputations could be “irreparably and illegitimately impugned.”

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, whose office ran the investigation, said that while his office can’t release the names, Catholic bishops can and should.