Father Paul J. McLaughlin – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1955 Ordained
1955 – 1956 St. Ann’s Church, Peabody, MA
1957 – 1958 Christ the King Church, Richland, WA (Diocese of Yakima);
1959 – 1962 St. Joseph’s Church, White Salmon, WA (Diocese of Yakima)
1963 – 1966 St. Agnes Church, Arlington, MA
1967 – 1972 St. John the Evangelist Church, Swampscott, MA
1973 – 1977 Regis College, Weston, MA
1978 – 1985 St. Peter’s Church, Lowell, MA
1986 – 2001 Immaculate Conception Church, Marlboro, MA
2002 – 2003 “Senior Priests”
2004 – 2008 Senior Priests (Retired)”
2009 “Senior Priests (Retired)” – listed as living in Indian Wells, 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.)

Summary:
  • Father McLaughlin is not indexed after the 2009 Official Catholic Directory.
  • Father Paul J. McLaughlin was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least ten occasions from approximately 1967 to 1969 when the boy was approximately 8 to 10 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McLaughlin was assigned to St. John the Evangelist Church in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McLaughlin included the following: Father McLaughlin fondled the boy’s penis and testicles over the boy’s clothing; and Father McLaughlin took the boy and other children skinny dipping.
  • The Archdiocese of Boston agreed to settle the claim in 2021.