Assignment Record:

Dates	Assignment
Approx. 1972	Ordained in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
1972 – 1973	St. Anselm Church, Swissvale, PA
1973 – 1978	Immaculate Conception Church, Washington, PA
1978 – 1979	St. Maurice Church, Forest Hills, PA
1979	“Leave of Absence”
1979 – 1982	St. Kieran Church, Lawrenceville, PA
1982 – 1984	St. John Fisher Church, Churchill, PA
1984 – 1986	Holy Innocents Church, Sheraden, PA
1986 – 1987	Sewickley Valley Hospital (chaplain), Sewickley, PA
1987 – 1988	Forbes Regional Hospital (chaplain), Monroeville, PA
1988 – 1994	St. Edward Church, Blawnox, PA
1994 – 1998	Our Lady of Fatima Church, Hopewell, PA
1998	State Correctional Institution – Pittsburgh (chaplain), Pittsburgh, PA
1998	Allegheny University Medical Center (chaplain)
1998 – 2004	St. Patrick – St. Stanislaus Church, Pittsburgh, PA

• Per the Grand Jury report, Father McKenna received treatment at the St. Luke Institute in 2004 and “withdrew from active ministry” that same year.
• Father Thomas McKenna was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least ten occasions from approximately 1979 to 1981 when the male child was approximately thirteen to fifteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McKenna was assigned to St. Kieran’s Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the boy served as an altar boy at the church.
• The sexual abuse by Father McKenna included the following: Father McKenna reached into the front of the boy’s pants and underwear and grabbed and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin. Father McKenna also fondled the boy’s buttocks, skin-on-skin. Father McKenna sometimes forced the boy to fondle Father McKenna’s genitals.
• The claim settled in May 2020 in the low five figures.