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 George Parme – Diocese of Pittsburgh

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1948 Ordained in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
1949 – 1952 St. Peter’s Church, Butler, PA
1953 – 1956 St. Aloysius Church, Wilmerding, PA
1957 – 1958 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Midland, OH
1959 Most Holy Name of Jesus Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1960 St. Patrick’s Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1961 – 1963 St. Catherine of Siena Church, Pittsburgh, PA;
1964 St. Joseph’s Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1965 – 1966 Mount Nazareth Academy, Pittsburgh, PA
1967 – 1968 Provincial Motherhouse of the St. Joseph’s Province of the
Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth of Western Pennsylvania (chaplain), Pittsburgh, PA
1969 Mother of Good Counsel Church, Pittsburgh, PA
1970 – 1974 St. Louis Church, West Sunbury, PA
1975 – 1989 St. Cecilia’s Church, Glassport, PA
1990 – 1997 St. John Vianney Manor, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 – 2002 “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 Parme died in 2002.
  • Father George Parme was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least three occasions from approximately 1958 to 1959 when the boy was approximately 13 to 14 years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Parme was assigned to Most Holy Name Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the boy served as an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Parme took place in Father Parme’s car and inside Most Holy Name Church. The sexual abuse included the following: Father Parme reached into the boy’s pants and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low five figures.

Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p. – Diocese of Allentown / The Barnabites

Partial Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1972 Ordained
1975 Barnabite Fathers Residence, Bethlehem, PA
1976 Not indexed
1977 Barnabite Fathers Residence, Bethlehem, PA
1978 – 1985 Bethlehem Catholic High School, Bethlehem, PA
1986 Barnabite Fathers Residence, Bethlehem, 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.)

Father Patil is not indexed after the 1986 Official Catholic Directory. Father Patil may have served in Canada for some of the time not covered by the Official Catholic Directory’s assignments.
 
Summary:
  • Father Gabriel Patil, c.r.s.p., was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1992 when the boy was approximately 8 years old. The sexual abuse occurred inside the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Northampton, Pennsylvania. The victim, who served as an altar boy at the church, reported that Father Patil occasionally filled in as a priest at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Patil included the following: under the guise of helping the boy put on his altar boy robes for Mass, Father Patil reached inside the boy’s pants and fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the mid-five figures.

Father Robert Patterson – Archdiocese of Newark

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
Approx. 1958 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Newark
1958 – 1963 Blessed Sacrament Church, Newark, NJ
1964 – 1968 Corpus Christi Church, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
1969 – 1979 Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Newark, NJ
1980 – 1991 Christ the King Church, Jersey City, NJ
1992 – 2002 St. John’s Church, Orange, 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 Patterson died in 2002.
  • Father Robert Patterson was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on at least two occasions in approximately 1969 when the male child was approximately ten years old. At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Patterson was assigned to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Newark, New Jersey, and the male child was an altar boy at the church.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Patterson included the following: Father Patterson fondled the boy’s penis and testicles, skin-on-skin, and Father Patterson made the boy sit on Father Patterson’s lap such that the boy could feel Father Patterson’s erect penis pressing against the boy’s buttocks over their clothing.
  • The claim settled in May 2020 in the mid six figures.

Father John P. Paul – Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Assignment Record:

DatesAssignment
1972 Ordained in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
1973 – 1974 St. Alphonsus Church, Maple Glen, PA
1975 St. Isaac Jogues Church, Wayne, PA
1976 – 1980 Bishop McDevitt High School, Wyncote, PA
1981 – 1982 Emeric Hall, Brothers of Charity (chaplain), Philadelphia, PA
1983 – 1986 Triest Hall (chaplain), Philadelphia, PA
1987 – 1990 St. Robert’s Church, Chester, PA
1991 – 1993 Archbishop Kennedy High School, Conshohocken, PA
1991 – 1996 St. Philip Neri Church, Lafayette Hill, PA
1994 – 1998 Kennedy-Kenrick Catholic High School
1998 – 2000 St. Andrew’s Church, Newtown, PA
1998 – 2003 Archbishop Wood Catholic High School, Warminster, PA
2001 – 2013 Our Lady of Calvary 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.)

Father Paul is not indexed after the 2013 Official Catholic Directory.
 
Summary:
  • Father John P. Paul was accused of sexually abusing a male minor child on one occasion in approximately 1967 when the boy was approximately 8 years old.At the time of the sexual abuse, Father Paul was a seminarian in training to become a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The sexual abuse took place on a trip to New Jersey, where Father Paul brought the claimant and several other boys.
  • The sexual abuse by Father Paul consisted of Father Paul sodomizing the boy.
  • The claim settled in 2020 in the low six figures.
  1. Father Michael Pecharich – Diocese of Orange
  2. Father John Piatkowski – Diocese of Erie
  3. Father William Presley – Diocese of Erie
  4. Father Joseph J. Pucci, O.M.I.
  5. Father Paul V. Rattigan – Archdiocese of Boston
  6. Father Michael J. Regan
  7. Brother Remigius, C.F.X., a/k/a Francis O’Lone – Xaverian Brothers
  8. Father Joseph P. Rice – Archdiocese of Newark
  9. Brother Donald Richard, F.M.S. - Archdiocese of Newark - Marist Brothers of the Schools
  10. Father Edward Richard – Diocese of Manchester
  11. Father Thomas A. Riley – Archdiocese of Boston
  12. Father Eugene Riordan, S.M.A. – Society of African Missions
  13. Father James J. Rosch – Diocese of Albany
  14. Father Sylvio Ruest – Archdiocese of Boston
  15. Father Robert F. Ryan – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  16. Father John Salvucci – Archdiocese of Boston
  17. Father William I. Shinnick - Archdiocese of Boston
  18. Father Edward Shoback – Diocese of Scranton
  19. Father David Soderlund – Diocese of Allentown
  20. Father Leonard P. Spanburgh – Archdiocese of Newark
  21. Father Francis Stinner – Archdiocese of New York
  22. Father John Stonebridge – Diocese of Brooklyn
  23. Father Gerard Sudol – Archdiocese of Newark
  24. Father Bernard L. Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  25. Father John T. Sullivan – Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Grand Rapids, Diocese of Gallup, Diocese of Phoenix
  26. Father T. Raymond Sullivan – Archdiocese of Boston
  27. Father Patrick J. Tague – Archdiocese of Boston
  28. Father Arthur Taraborelli – Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  29. Father Toribio Villacastin – Archdiocese of Hartford
  30. Father Robert J. Vonnahmen – Diocese of Belleville
  31. Father Michael Wempe – Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  32. Father Michael Weston – Archdiocese of Chicago
  33. Father Harold Robert White – Diocese of Denver
  34. Father Benjamin D. Wysolmerski – Diocese of Burlington
  35. Father Theodore Zabowski – Diocese of Pittsburgh