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 James McAuliffe – Diocese of Scranton

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1942 Ordained in the Diocese of Scranton
1942 St. Ann Church, Tobyhanna, PA
1942 – 1945 St. Thomas Church, Archbald, PA
1945 Our Lady of the Snows Church, Clarks Summit, PA
1945 – 1947 St. Mary’s Church, Pittston, PA
1947 – 1953 1947 – 1953
1953 – 1954 St. Therese Church, Shavertown, PA
1954 St. Ann Church, Tobyhanna, PA
1954 – 1966 Holy Saviour Church, Wilkes-Barre, PA
1966 – 1969 St. Thomas Church, Dickson City, PA
1969 – 1973 St. James Church, Pleasant Mount, PA
1973 – 1989 St. David Church, Scranton, PA
Sources:
  • Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, released by the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General, dated July 27, 2018; and
  • The Official Catholic Directory, Kenedy & Sons
Summary:
  • Father McAuliffe died in 1989.
  • Father James McAuliffe was accused of sexually abusing two male children during the time period of approximately 1966 to 1969 when one child was approximately eleven to twelve years old and the other was approximately thirteen to sixteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McAuliffe was assigned to St. Thomas Church in Dickson City, Pennsylvania, and the boys were parishioners at the church. Much of the sexual abuse took place inside the church and in the nearby rectory affiliated with the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McAuliffe included the following: Father McAuliffe would give the boys long, tight hugs, rubbing his body against theirs such that they could feel his erect penis against their bodies over their clothes. One of the boys also reported that Father McAuliffe reached inside the front of the boy’s pants and underwear and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin.
  • The claims both settled in 2020 in the mid five figures.

Father Maurus McBarron, O.S.B. (Benedictines)

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1935 St. Mary’s Monastery in Delbarton, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1936 -1942 St. Mary’s Abbey in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1943 Chaplain in U.S. Army (Archdiocese of Newark)
1944 - 1945 Not indexed
1946 - 1949 St. Mary’s Abbey in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1950 - 1953 St. Mary’s Abbey in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
[Chaplain in the U.S. Army]
1954 Not Indexed
1955 -1957 St. Mary’s Abbey in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1958 - 1962 St. Mary’s Priory in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1963 St. Mary’s Priory in Morristown, NJ (Diocese of Paterson)
1964 St. Mary’s Abbey in Morristown, NJ (Diocese of Paterson)
1965 St. Mary’s Priory in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark);
St. Mary’s Abbey in Morristown, NJ (Diocese of Paterson)
1966 - 1967 St. Mary’s Priory in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1968 St. Mary’s Church in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
St. Mary’s Priory in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1969 St. Mary’s Church in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
St. Mary’s Newark Benedictine Abbey in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
1970 - 1987 St. Mary’s Church in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
Newark Abbey in Newark, NJ (Archdiocese of Newark)
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 McBarron died in 1987.
  • Father McBarron was accused of sexually abusing a female minor child on at least 20 occasions from approximately 1977 until approximately 1979 when the girl was approximately 13 to 14 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McBarron was assigned to St. Mary’s Church in Newark, New Jersey.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McBarron included the following: Father McBarron fondling the girl’s breasts over her clothing, Father McBarron exposing his genitals to the girl and having the girl fondle his genitals skin on skin, and Father McBarron forcing the girl to perform oral sex on him until he ejaculated.
  • The Archdiocese of Newark agreed to settle the claim in the low to mid six figures in 2021.

Father Paul R. McCarthy – Archdiocese of Boston

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1980 Ordained
1981 – 1986 St. Mary’s Church, Charlestown, MA
1987 – 1989 Our Lady of Grace Church, Chelsea/Everett, MA
1990 St. Ann’s Church, Somerville, MA
1990 – 1994 St. Catherine of Siena Church, Norwood, MA
1995 – 1996 St. Augustine Church, Boston, MA
1997 “Absent on Leave”
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 McCarthy is not indexed after the 1997 Official Catholic Directory.
  • Father Paul R. McCarthy was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least two occasions from approximately 1989 to 1990 when the boy was approximately 11 to 12 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McCarthy was assigned to St. Catherine of Siena Church in Norwood, Massachusetts.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McCarthy included the following: Father McCarthy told the boy to strip down to his underwear. Then Father McCarthy fondled the boy’s genitals and buttocks, over the boy’s underwear; at the same time, Father McCarthy was masturbating.
  • The Archdiocese of Boston agreed to settle the claim in 2021.
Complaint:

Father James McDonnell – Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1943 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
1944 – 1950 Our Lady of Consolation Church, Philadelphia, PA
1951 – 1953 Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, PA
1954 – 1975 “U.S. Navy Chaplains”
1976 Annunciation B.V.M. Church, Brookline, PA
1977 – 1995 Maternity B.V.M. 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.)

Summary:
  • Father McDonnell died in 1995.
  • Father James McDonnell was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least thirty occasions from approximately 1978 to 1979 when the male child was approximately thirteen to fourteen years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father McDonnell was assigned to Maternity B.V.M. Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sexual abuse took place in locations including the rectory near Maternity B.V.M. Church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father McDonnell included the following: Father McDonnell performed oral sex on the boy and forced the boy to perform oral sex on Father McDonnell. On about two occasions, Father McDonnell also sodomized the boy.
  • The claim settled in April 2020 in the low six figures.
  1. Father Joseph McHugh – Diocese of Trenton
  2. Father Joseph F. McGarvey – Diocese of Camden
  3. Father Francis G. McInerney - Archdiocese of Boston
  4. Father Thomas McKenna – Diocese of Pittsburgh
  5. Father William McKeone – Diocese of Trenton
  6. Father Paul J. McLaughlin – Archdiocese of Boston
  7. Father F. Dominic Menna – Archdiocese of Boston (at times indexed as “Fiori D. Menna”)
  8. Father John L. Murray – Diocese of Erie
  9. Monsignor John O’Donnell – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  10. Father Francis E. O’Brien, Jr. – Archdiocese of Boston
  11. Father Denis O’Driscoll, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  12. Father Martin O’Hara – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  13. Father George Parme – Diocese of Pittsburgh
  14. Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p. – Diocese of Allentown / The Barnabites
  15. Father Robert Patterson – Archdiocese of Newark
  16. Father John P. Paul – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  17. Father Michael Pecharich – Diocese of Orange
  18. Father John Piatkowski – Diocese of Erie
  19. Father William Presley – Diocese of Erie
  20. Father Joseph J. Pucci, O.M.I.
  21. Father Paul V. Rattigan – Archdiocese of Boston
  22. Father Michael J. Regan
  23. Brother Remigius, C.F.X., a/k/a Francis O’Lone – Xaverian Brothers
  24. Father Joseph P. Rice – Archdiocese of Newark
  25. Brother Donald Richard, F.M.S. - Archdiocese of Newark - Marist Brothers of the Schools
  26. Father Edward Richard – Diocese of Manchester
  27. Father Thomas A. Riley – Archdiocese of Boston
  28. Father Eugene Riordan, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  29. Father James J. Rosch – Diocese of Albany
  30. Father Sylvio Ruest – Archdiocese of Boston
  31. Father Robert F. Ryan – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  32. Father John Salvucci – Archdiocese of Boston
  33. Father William I. Shinnick - Archdiocese of Boston
  34. Father Edward Shoback – Diocese of Scranton
  35. Father David Soderlund – Diocese of Allentown
  36. Father Leonard P. Spanburgh – Archdiocese of Newark
  37. Father Francis Stinner – Archdiocese of New York
  38. Father John Stonebridge – Diocese of Brooklyn
  39. Father Gerard Sudol – Archdiocese of Newark
  40. Father Bernard L. Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston