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 Brian Gallagher, S.S.C.

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1952 Ordained
1976 – 1978 St. Columban’s Foreign Mission Society, Milton, MA, Archdiocese of Boston
1979 – 1983 St. Columban’s Foreign Mission Society in Chicago, IL, Archdiocese of Chicago
1984 – 1989 Columban Fathers, Procure House in Los Angeles, CA, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
1990 – 1993 Columban Fathers in Edgemont, PA, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
1994 Columban Fathers in Lansdowne, PA, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
1995 St. Columbans, St. Columban’s Foreign Mission Society in Elkhorn, NE, Diocese of Omaha
1996 - 2014 St. Columban’s Retirement House in Bristol, RI, Diocese of Providence
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 Gallagher died in 2014.

Father Vincent J. Gallo – Diocese of Brooklyn

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1960 Ordained in the Diocese of Brooklyn
1961 – 1968 Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians Church, Woodside, NY
1969 – 1970 St. Mary Magdalene Church, Springfield Gardens, NY
1971 – 1977 Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Brooklyn, NY
1976 – 1977 “Diocesan Priests Senate” (as “Vincent F. Gallo”)
1978 “Special Assignment”
1979 Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary & St. Stephen’s Church, Brooklyn, NY
1980 – 1981 St. Vincent Ferrer Church, Brooklyn, NY
1982 – 1990 Blessed Sacrament Church, Brooklyn, NY
1991 – 2000 St. Bernard’s Church, Brooklyn, NY
2001 – 2010 St. Pancras Church, Queens, NY
2010 – 2017 “Retired;” residing in Breezy Point, NY
2018 “Retired;” no location given
2019 Not indexed
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 Gallo is not indexed after the 2018 Official Catholic Directory.
  • Father Vincent J. Gallo was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least five occasions from approximately 1983 to 1984 when the male child was approximately 9 to 10 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Gallo was assigned to Blessed Sacrament Church in Brooklyn, New York.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Gallo included the following: Father Gallo rubbed his erect penis against the boy’s body; Father Gallo performed oral sex on the boy; and Father Gallo forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father Gallo.
  • The claim settled in 2021 in the mid-six figures.

Father Michael Garry – Diocese of Trenton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1939 Ordained in the Diocese of Sacramento
1940 – 1944 Absent on Leave (no location given)
Approx. 1944 Begins serving in the Archdiocese of Newark
1945 – 1947 St. Elizabeth’s Church, Linden, NJ
1948 – 1950; Absent on Leave (still listed as a Sacramento priest)
Approx. 1950 Begins serving in the Diocese of Trenton; may have been ordained in the Diocese of Trenton at this time
1951 – 1955 St. Denis Church, Manasquan, NJ; The church had stations in Brielle, NJ, and Sea Girt, NJ; The church had an affiliated “summer chapel” at Manasquan Beach, NJ
1956 – 1957 St. James the Less Church, Jamesburg, NJ
1958 – 1959 St. Magdalene de Pazzi Church, Flemington, NJ
1960 St. Mark’s Church, Sea Girt, NJ
1961 – 1962 Ascension Church, Bradley, NJ
1963 – 1968 St. Jude’s Church, Blairstown, NJ
1969 – 1981 St. Jerome’s Church, West Long Branch, NJ
1982 – 1988 “Retired;” listed as living at Peter Cooper Village, Long Branch, 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 Garry died in 1988.
  • Father Michael Garry was accused of sexually abusing two female minor children. The sexual abuse began in approximately 1960 and 1961 when the girls were approximately twelve and nine years old, respectively. At the time when the sexual abuse began, Father Garry was assigned to St. Mark’s Church in Sea Girt, New Jersey, the girls’ home parish.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Garry included the following: One woman reported that Father Garry sexually abused her when she was approximately twelve to thirteen years old. Father Garry fondled her breasts and genitals inside her clothing, skin-on-skin, and kissed her on the lips, inserting his tongue into her mouth. The sexual abuse occurred in Father Garry’s car and at the girl’s school, St. Catherine School in Spring Lake, New Jersey.
  • The other woman reported that Father Garry sexually abused her on one occasion when she was approximately nine years old. In Father Garry’s car, Father Garry inserted his hand into the girl’s pants and underwear and fondled her genitals, skin-on-skin.
  • The claims both settled in December 2019 in the low six figures.

Father James M. Gibbons - Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1952 Ordained
1953—1956 Our Lady of Comforter of the Afflicted Church, Waltham, MA
1957—1962 St. James' Church, Medford, MA
1963—1967 Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, Gloucester, MA
1968—1973 St. Charles Borromeo's Church, Waltham, MA
1974—1979 Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Carver, MA
1980—1997 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church, Scituate, MA
1998 Index: Oblates Foreign Missions: "U.S. Religious Serving in Brazil"
1999—2009 Archdiocese of Boston: "Retired," 
Index: Oblates Foreign Missions: "U.S. Religious Serving in Brazil"
2010 Died August 21, 2009
Source:
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons
Summary:
  • Father James M. Gibbons was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on at least one occasion in approximately 1961 when the female child was approximately twelve years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Gibbons was assigned to St. James’s Church in Medford, Massachusetts, and the female child was a student at the school. The sexual abuse took place inside St. James’s Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Gibbons included the following: Father Gibbons fondled the girl’s breasts over her clothes.
  • The claim settled in November 2022 in the mid-five figures.
  1. Father Augustine M. Giella – Diocese of Harrisburg
  2. Father Denis Ginty – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  3. Father J. Gerard Griffin– Diocese of Trenton, Diocese of Springfield
  4. Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez
  5. Monsignor James J. Haddad - Archdiocese of Boston
  6. Father Michael H. Hansen – Archdiocese of Newark
  7. Father Patrick J. Healy – Diocese of Erie
  8. Monsignor Herman Heide – Archdiocese of New York
  9. Father Douglas U. Hermansen – Diocese of Trenton
  10. Father Charles Herr – Archdiocese of Newark
  11. Father Donald Hickey – Diocese of Trenton
  12. Father Daniel M. Holihan – Archdiocese of Chicago
  13. Father Ernest Karl Huller – Diocese of Springfield
  14. Monsignor Thomas M. Jordan – Diocese of Scranton
  15. Father Charles Kane – Archdiocese of Boston
  16. Father Thomas C. Kelley – Diocese of Erie
  17. Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly – Diocese of Scranton
  18. Father Robert J. Klem, C.S.B. – Congregation of St. Basil, a.k.a. the Basilians, and the Diocese of Rochester
  19. Father Eugene Kwapisz, O.F.M. Conv. - Order of Minors Friar Conventual, St. Anthony of Padua Province - Diocese of Trenton
  20. Serio “Charlie” La Penna - Archdiocese of Boston
  21. Father Victor C. LaVoie - Archdiocese of Boston
  22. Father Roger R. Leblanc - Archdiocese of Boston
  23. Father Theodore F. Llanos – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  24. Father Salvatore Luzzi – Diocese of Erie
  25. Father Gerald F. Lyons – Diocese of Trenton
  26. Father Patrick Francis Magee – Diocese of Trenton
  27. Monsignor Daniel Martin – Diocese of Erie
  28. Father George Maslar, O.M.F.Conv. (Conventual Franciscans)
  29. Father James McAuliffe – Diocese of Scranton
  30. Father Maurus McBarron, O.S.B. (Benedictines)
  31. Father Paul R. McCarthy – Archdiocese of Boston
  32. Father James McDonnell – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  33. Father Joseph McHugh – Diocese of Trenton
  34. Father Joseph F. McGarvey – Diocese of Camden
  35. Father Francis G. McInerney - Archdiocese of Boston
  36. Father Thomas McKenna – Diocese of Pittsburgh
  37. Father William McKeone – Diocese of Trenton
  38. Father Paul J. McLaughlin – Archdiocese of Boston
  39. Father F. Dominic Menna – Archdiocese of Boston (at times indexed as “Fiori D. Menna”)
  40. Father John L. Murray – Diocese of Erie