Priest Assignment Records and Case Details Released

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Detailed information on the assignment records and claim history of these abusers, together with sources, can be accessed by reading below as well as in the pdfs lnked above.

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Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p. – Diocese of Allentown / The Barnabites

Partial Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1972 Ordained
1975 Barnabite Fathers Residence, Bethlehem, PA
1976 Not indexed
1977 Barnabite Fathers Residence, Bethlehem, PA
1978 – 1985 Bethlehem Catholic High School, Bethlehem, PA
1986 Barnabite Fathers Residence, Bethlehem, 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 Patil is not indexed after the 1986 Official Catholic Directory. Father Patil may have served in Canada for some of the time not covered by the Official Catholic Directory’s assignments.
 
Summary:
  • Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p., was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1992 when the boy was approximately 8 years old. The sexual abuse occurred inside the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Northampton, Pennsylvania. The victim, who served as an altar boy at the church, reported that Father Patil occasionally filled in as a priest at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Patil included the following: under the guise of helping the boy put on his altar boy robes for Mass, Father Patil reached inside the boy’s pants and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the mid-five figures.

Father Robert Patterson – Archdiocese of Newark

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1958 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Newark
1958 – 1963 Blessed Sacrament Church, Newark, NJ
1964 – 1968 Corpus Christi Church, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
1969 – 1979 Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Newark, NJ
1980 – 1991 Christ the King Church, Jersey City, NJ
1992 – 2002 St. John’s Church, Orange, NJ
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:
  • Father Patterson died in 2002.
  • Father Robert Patterson was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least two occasions in approximately 1969 when the male child was approximately ten years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Patterson was assigned to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Newark, New Jersey, and the male child was an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Patterson included the following: Father Patterson fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin, and Father Patterson made the boy sit on Father Patterson’s lap such that the boy could feel Father Patterson’s erect penis pressing against the boy’s buttocks over their clothing.
  • The claim settled in May 2020 in the mid six figures.

Father John P. Paul – Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1972 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
1973 – 1974 St. Alphonsus Church, Maple Glen, PA
1975 St. Isaac Jogues Church, Wayne, PA
1976 – 1980 Bishop McDevitt High School, Wyncote, PA
1981 – 1982 Emeric Hall, Brothers of Charity (chaplain), Philadelphia, PA
1983 – 1986 Triest Hall (chaplain), Philadelphia, PA
1987 – 1990 St. Robert’s Church, Chester, PA
1991 – 1993 Archbishop Kennedy High School, Conshohocken, PA
1991 – 1996 St. Philip Neri Church, Lafayette Hill, PA
1994 – 1998 Kennedy-Kenrick Catholic High School
1998 – 2000 St. Andrew’s Church, Newtown, PA
1998 – 2003 Archbishop Wood Catholic High School, Warminster, PA
2001 – 2013 Our Lady of Calvary 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 Paul is not indexed after the 2013 Official Catholic Directory.
 
Summary:
  • Father John P. Paul was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1967 when the boy was approximately 8 years old.At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Paul was a seminarian in training to become a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The sexual abuse took place on a trip to New Jersey, where Father Paul brought the claimant and several other boys.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Paul consisted of Father Paul sodomizing the boy.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low six figures.

Father Michael Pecharich – Diocese of Orange

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1973 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
1974 – 1976 St. Bridget of Sweden Church, Van Nuys, CA
1976 Begins serving in the Diocese of Orange
1977 – 1979 St. Edward the Confessor Church, Dana Point, CA
1980 – 1983 San Antonio del Canon Church, Anaheim, CA
1984 – 1989 St. Juliana Falconieri Church, Fullerton, CA
1990 – 2002 San Francisco Solano Church, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
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 Pecharich’s faculties were removed in 2002.

Summary:
  • Father Michael Pecharich was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least five occasions from approximately 1977 to 1978 when the boy was approximately 9 to 10 years old. The sexual abuse took place while Father Pecharich was assigned to St. Edward the Confessor Church in Dana Point, California, and the boy was an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Pecharich occurred in the sacristy of the church and included the following: Father Pecharich gave the boy long, tight hugs, during which Father Pecharich rubbed his crotch against the boy’s stomach or the boy’s buttocks.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low five figures.
  1. Father John Piatkowski – Diocese of Erie
  2. Father William Presley – Diocese of Erie
  3. Father Joseph J. Pucci, O.M.I.
  4. Father Paul V. Rattigan – Archdiocese of Boston
  5. Father Michael J. Regan
  6. Brother Remigius, C.F.X., a/k/a Francis O’Lone – Xaverian Brothers
  7. Father Joseph P. Rice – Archdiocese of Newark
  8. Brother Donald Richard, F.M.S. - Archdiocese of Newark - Marist Brothers of the Schools
  9. Father Edward Richard – Diocese of Manchester
  10. Father Thomas A. Riley – Archdiocese of Boston
  11. Father Eugene Riordan, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  12. Father James J. Rosch – Diocese of Albany
  13. Father Sylvio Ruest – Archdiocese of Boston
  14. Father Robert F. Ryan – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  15. Father John Salvucci – Archdiocese of Boston
  16. Father William I. Shinnick - Archdiocese of Boston
  17. Father Edward Shoback – Diocese of Scranton
  18. Father David Soderlund – Diocese of Allentown
  19. Father Leonard Spanburgh – Archdiocese of Newark
  20. Father Francis Stinner – Archdiocese of New York
  21. Father John Stonebridge – Diocese of Brooklyn
  22. Father Gerard Sudol – Archdiocese of Newark
  23. Father Bernard L. Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  24. Father John T. Sullivan – Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Grand Rapids, Diocese of Gallup, Diocese of Phoenix
  25. Father T. Raymond Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  26. Father Patrick J. Tague – Archdiocese of Boston
  27. Father Arthur Taraborelli – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  28. Father Toribio Villacastin – Archdiocese of Hartford
  29. Father Robert J. Vonnahmen – Diocese of Belleville
  30. Father Michael Wempe – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  31. Father Michael Weston – Archdiocese of Chicago
  32. Father Harold Robert White – Diocese of Denver
  33. Father Benjamin D. Wysolmerski – Diocese of Burlington
  34. Father Theodore Zabowski – Diocese of Pittsburgh