Former priest, Donald J. McGuire, later convicted of sexual abuse, above with John Doe 129 at his First Communion in 1985, in a photograph provided by John Doe 129.
Posted on 03/29/2011 6:19:53 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
Jesuit leaders in Chicago largely ignored or kept secret numerous reports, spanning four decades, that a prominent priest was sexually abusing teenage boys, lawyers for victims charged on Monday in a motion for punitive damages in a Chicago court.
Included in the motion were more than 65 recently obtained church documents and depositions that, the lawyers said, demonstrated “a reckless disregard for the safety of others in the face of repeated reports of sexual misconduct” on the part of Chicago Jesuit leaders.
The former priest, Donald J. McGuire, now 80, was convicted on several counts of sex abuse in state and federal courts in 2006 and 2008, and is serving a 25-year federal sentence.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Well good, he’s in jail. Right where he needs to be! His Superiors need to be lined up for a butt kicking!
For about two decades, starting in the early 1980s, he was a spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa, who put him in charge of retreats for the nuns in her worldwide order, Missionaries of Charity. Several times each year, in India, the United States, Russia and other countries, he led retreats for the sisters.
In these travels he routinely took along a teenage boy as an assistant, saying he needed help administering his diabetes treatment...
So here we learn this pederast priest was a "spiritual adviser to Mother Teresa" who took young boys with him on his trips around the world with her.
Hang the molesters and those that protected them. No ifs or butts.
His superiors are probably roasting in the afterlife, which is where they belong if they knowingly kept this guy stocked with young boys.
Especially no the latter.
Been far too much of such in these situations for decades, if not centuries.
Yep, that, too. I shudder to think what THEY experienced when they met the Lord, at the time of their deaths.
I’m glad that the case is so well documented. Flags on this guy were raised from the get go. Honestly he should never have made it through seminary. The Chicago Province dropped the ball to put it mildly. To put it harshly yes they should be held grossly negligent and pay whatever civil and criminal penalties are levied against them.
Here is a link to a transcript from a 2007 NPR program. I think it is about the same case.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15683354
Therei s a timeline in the article I posted the link to which is a bit easier to read if others don’t want to wade through the court docs from the Bishop Accountability site.
Former priest, Donald J. McGuire, later convicted of sexual abuse, above with John Doe 129 at his First Communion in 1985, in a photograph provided by John Doe 129.
The
Anima
Christi
The Anima Christi is a prayer from around the 14th century.
It is still widely used after receiving the Body and Blood of Our Lord,
Jesus Christ in Holy Communion.
| Soul of Christ, sanctify me Body of Christ, save me Blood of Christ, inebriate me Water from Christ's side, wash me Passion of Christ, strengthen me O good Jesus, hear me Within Thy wounds hide me Suffer me not to be separated from Thee From the malicious enemy defend me In the hour of my death call me And bid me come unto Thee That I may praise Thee with Thy saints and with Thy angels Forever and ever Amen |
- Saint John Vianney.
I hope that prayer was for the children raped by the priest in this story.
It was for all people, including you.
Most of the Jesuits need to be excommunicated.
My guess is that his close association with Mother Theresa helped some in his order say, “No, not HIM! He’s DIFFERENT!” Mother Theresa was naive, a kind of spiritual naivete stemming from a caritas of spirit. The downside, though, is that people tended to create saints-by-association, such as Charles Keating, who is referred to by the monicker, the “Keating 5.”
Having read the lawsuit, there’s no way the order did not KNOW of problems.
FURTHER, Father Joseph Fessio was the whistle-blower at the USF. THIS is the bombshell. We Catholics who are fighting to improve the American Catholic Church know that name: he was squeezed out of the very heretical USF, where he then helped found another college (the name escapes me) in SF, before becoming founding provost at Ave Maria University. Was Fr. Fessio squeezed partly because of his whistle-blowing, not just his efforts at combatting heresy?
The Jesuits have become notorious for their modernism. In truth the order should be suppressed. The problem is that they have many powerful friends in the Church, fellow modernists, including many in the Vatican, so we hear. John Paul II did not dare confront them because schism is not something beyond them. Pederasty is the least of their crimes against God. Yet among them are many good priests, though as rare as Republicans in the Massachusetts legislature.
Oooh, what I wouldn’t give to knock that smug, evil look off that creep’s face.
Interesting.
And wasn’t the other school Fr. Fessio tried to start The John Paul Insistute? Not to be confused with John Paul the Great college in San Diego.
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