Father Arthur Taraborelli – Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1964 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia;
1965 – 1969 St. Gabriel Church, Stowe, PA;
1970 St. Francis Cabrini Church, Fairless Hills, PA
1971 – 1975 Visitation B.V.M. Church, Trooper, PA
1976 – 1979 Our Lady of Loreto Church, Philadelphia, PA
1980 – 1981 Holy Trinity Church, Morrisville, PA
1982 – 1986 St. Callistus Church, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Holy Spirit Church, Philadelphia, PA
1988 – 2006 St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Philadelphia, PA
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons

(The years listed above are the publication years of the Official Catholic Directory. According to the Directory, the assignments provided for a given year are effective as of January 1 of that year. This means that a priest listed in the Directory for a given year at a parish or school was likely at the same assignment for at least part of the previous year as well.)

Father Taraborelli died in 2006.

Summary:
  • Father Arthur Taraborelli was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on approximately fifty occasions from approximately 1975 to 1976 when the male child was approximately thirteen to fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Taraborelli was assigned to Our Lady of Loreto Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the boy was an altar boy at the church. The sexual abuse took place inside Our Lady of Loreto Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Taraborelli included the following: Father Taraborelli performed oral
    sex on the boy and forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father Taraborelli. Father Taraborelli
    also inserted his finger into the boy’s anus and sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in October 2019 in the low six figures.