Monsignor Joseph C. Ansaldi – Archdiocese of New York

Assignment Record:

YearsAssignment
1962 Ordained in the Archdiocese of New York
1963 Mission of the Immaculate Virgin for the Protection of Homeless and Destitute Children, Staten Island, NY
1964 – 1978 Cardinal Hayes High School, New York City, NY
1979 Mission of the Immaculate Virgin for the Protection of Homeless and Destitute Children, Staten Island, NY
1980 – 2010 St. Joseph by the Sea High School, Staten Island, NY
1991 – 2011 Mission of the Immaculate Virgin for the Protection of Homeless and Destitute Children, Staten Island, NY
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.)

Summary:
  • Monsignor Ansaldi is not indexed after the 2011 Official Catholic Directory.
  • Monsignor Ansaldi died in 2015.
  • Monsignor Joseph Ansaldi was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on approximately twenty occasions from approximately 1984 to 1985 when the male child was approximately 15 to 16 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Monsignor Ansaldi was employed as the principal of St. Joseph by the Sea High School in Staten Island, New York, and the boy was a student at the school.
  • The sexual abuse by Monsignor Ansaldi took place in Monsignor Ansaldi’s office and included the following: Monsignor Ansaldi forced the boy to bend over in front of a desk. Then Monsignor Ansaldi smacked the boy’s buttocks with a paddle. At the same time, Monsignor Ansaldi fondled the boy’s genitals over the boy’s pants.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the mid-five figures.