The history of Sacred Heart Church and Catholicism in Sharon, Pennsylvania begins in the early 1850s, when the first Catholic settlers moved to the Shenango Valley area.

The occasional services continued in this manner until the arrival of Reverend John J. O'Keeffe, who is considered to be the first resident pastor in Sharon.

[1] Father O'Keeffe commissioned the building of a pastoral residence, located south of where the current church is.

After the purchase of the Kimberly Mansion, the Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary left after they had failed to establish a foundation in the Diocese of Erie that was requested by the Bishop Tobias Mullen.

This program included an extensive alteration to the front of the church and vestibule(including the addition of the current stonework on the church), new ceilings, new windows, a new sanctuary, a new sacristy, and the conversion of the basement into a social center with two dining rooms, a new kitchen, updated restrooms, and a furnace room.

in 1935, Reverend James Murphy was appointed the pastor of Sacred Heart Church, and was named a monsignor in 1947.

In 1958, Father Murphy broke ground on a new $450,000 parochial school south of North State Line Road, on the land of the former John Stevenson estate, which the church had purchased, along with the mansion.

In the late half of the twentieth century, demographic shifts had an effect on Sacred Heart Church and much of the Shenango Valley.

In 2016, Bishop Lawrence Persico had decided changes needed to be made because of the demographic shifts, as he believed that, "the care of the souls for the faithful of Sharon could be better served by a single territorial parish..."[4] On April 14, 2016, Bishop Persico announced preliminary plans to merge Sacred Heart Church into Saint Joseph's Church.

After the mass, rumors began to circulate on how long the church would remain open as a secondary parish.

Soon after this article was published, Sacred Heart Parish, its parking lot, and rectory was found on the website for Northwood Realty Services, confirming what was long rumored, for $395,000.