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 Charles Herr – Archdiocese of Newark

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1948 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Newark
1949 – 2000 Ss. Peter and Paul Church, Hoboken, NJ
2001 – 2007 “Retired,” residing at St. John Vianney Residence, Rutherford, 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 Herr died in 2007.
  • Father Charles Herr was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least 100 occasions from approximately 1971 to 1978 when the male child was approximately ten to seventeen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Herr was assigned to Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the male child was a parishioner of the church. The sexual abuse took place in locations including the rectory near Ss. Peter and Paul Church and in an apartment building in Hoboken.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Herr included the following: Father Herr repeatedly kissed the boy on the lips, fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin, and performed oral sex on the boy.
  • The claim settled in February 2020 in the low six figures.

Father Donald Hickey – Diocese of Trenton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1939 Ordained in the Diocese of Trenton
1940 – 1941 St. Joseph’s Church, Keyport, NJ
1942 – 1947 Ss. Philip and James Church, Phillipsburg, NJ
1942 – 1947 “Trenton Diocese Youth Coordinated, Warren and Hunterdon”
1948 – 1954 Immaculate Conception Church, Clinton, NJ
1949 – 1952 “Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Hunterdon Co.”
1951 – 1952 “Holy Name Society”
1951 – 1952 New Jersey State Farm for Girls, Clinton, NJ
1955 – 1983 Nativity Church, Fair Haven, NJ
1984 – 1993 “Retired”
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 Hickey died in 1993.
  • Father Donald Hickey was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least two occasions in approximately 1975 when the male child was approximately nine years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Hickey was assigned to Nativity Church in Fair Haven, New Jersey, and the male child was a parishioner of the church and attended CCD classes through the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Hickey included the following: Father Hickey fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin. Father Hickey forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father Hickey. On at least one occasion, Father Hickey sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in December 2019 in the low six figures.

Father Daniel M. Holihan – Archdiocese of Chicago

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1958 Ordained
1959 – 1965 St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago, IL
1966 – 1968 St. Aloysius' Church in Chicago, IL
1969 St. Sylvester's Church in Chicago, IL
1970 – 1973 St. Francis de Sales' Church in Chicago, IL
1974 – 1979 St. Jane de Chantal's Church in Chicago, IL
1980 – 1990 Our Lady of the Snows Church in Chicago, IL
1991 St. Therese of the Infant Jesus' Church in Chicago, IL
1992 In residence at St. Jerome's Church in Chicago, IL
1993 – 2002 Catholic Charities of Chicago
2003 – 2005 Other Assignment
2006 – 2008 Retired at St. Joseph’s Home in Palatine, IL
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 Holihan died in 2016.

 

Father Ernest Karl Huller – Diocese of Springfield

Also indexed as “Father Karl Huller” and “Father E. Karl Huller”

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1954 Ordained
1955 – 1978 St. Mary’s Church, Springfield, MA
1959 – 1970 Cathedral High School, Springfield, MA
1976 – 1978 “Director of Education,” Diocese of Springfield
1976 – 1983 “Diocesan Consultors,” Diocese of Springfield
1979 – 1991 St. John the Evangelist Church, Agawam, MA
1985 – 1991 “Representative of the Bishop,” Diocese of Springfield
1986 – 1996 “Catholic Stewardship Appeal,” Diocese of Springfield
1992 – 1998 “Episcopal Vicars, Vicar for Finance,” Diocese of Springfield
1992 – 1998 “Representative of the Bishop at Mercy Hospital,” Diocese of Springfield
1992 – 1998 St. Michael’s Cathedral, Springfield, MA
1997 – 1998 “Annual Catholic Appeal,” Diocese of Springfield
Source:

(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 Huller died in 1997.
  • Father Ernest Karl Huller was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on two occasions in approximately 1964 when the girl was approximately 17 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Huller was assigned to Cathedral High School in Springfield,
    Massachusetts, as a teacher and guidance counselor, and the girl was a student at the school.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Huller included the following: Father Huller fondled the girl’s breasts and squeezed her buttocks, over her clothing.
  • The claim settled in 2021 in the low five figures.
  1. Monsignor Thomas M. Jordan – Diocese of Scranton
  2. Father Charles Kane – Archdiocese of Boston
  3. Father Thomas C. Kelley – Diocese of Erie
  4. Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly – Diocese of Scranton
  5. Father Robert J. Klem, C.S.B. – Congregation of St. Basil, a.k.a. the Basilians, and the Diocese of Rochester
  6. Father Eugene Kwapisz, O.F.M. Conv. - Order of Minors Friar Conventual, St. Anthony of Padua Province - Diocese of Trenton
  7. Serio “Charlie” La Penna - Archdiocese of Boston
  8. Father Victor C. LaVoie - Archdiocese of Boston
  9. Father Roger R. Leblanc - Archdiocese of Boston
  10. Father Theodore F. Llanos – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  11. Father Salvatore Luzzi – Diocese of Erie
  12. Father Gerald F. Lyons – Diocese of Trenton
  13. Father Patrick Francis Magee – Diocese of Trenton
  14. Monsignor Daniel Martin – Diocese of Erie
  15. Father George Maslar, O.M.F.Conv. (Conventual Franciscans)
  16. Father James McAuliffe – Diocese of Scranton
  17. Father Maurus McBarron, O.S.B. (Benedictines)
  18. Father Paul R. McCarthy – Archdiocese of Boston
  19. Father James McDonnell – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  20. Father Joseph McHugh – Diocese of Trenton
  21. Father Joseph F. McGarvey – Diocese of Camden
  22. Father Francis G. McInerney - Archdiocese of Boston
  23. Father Thomas McKenna – Diocese of Pittsburgh
  24. Father William McKeone – Diocese of Trenton
  25. Father Paul J. McLaughlin – Archdiocese of Boston
  26. Father F. Dominic Menna – Archdiocese of Boston (at times indexed as “Fiori D. Menna”)
  27. Father John L. Murray – Diocese of Erie
  28. Monsignor John O’Donnell – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  29. Father Francis E. O’Brien, Jr. – Archdiocese of Boston
  30. Father Denis O’Driscoll, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  31. Father Martin O’Hara – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  32. Father George Parme – Diocese of Pittsburgh
  33. Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p. – Diocese of Allentown / The Barnabites
  34. Father Robert Patterson – Archdiocese of Newark
  35. Father John P. Paul – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  36. Father Michael Pecharich – Diocese of Orange
  37. Father John Piatkowski – Diocese of Erie
  38. Father William Presley – Diocese of Erie
  39. Father Joseph J. Pucci, O.M.I.
  40. Father Paul V. Rattigan – Archdiocese of Boston