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| Clergy List Narrowed to Northwest Montana
Daily Inter Lake
April 30, 2015
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/clergy-list-narrowed-to-northwest-montana/article_a97d45ae-ef87-11e4-8dd2-4f8ddce8520f.html
As part of a legal settlement, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena posted a list Wednesday of all priests and other diocese workers who have been accused of sexual abuse at some time in the past.
The Inter Lake has studied the list to locate personnel who were assigned to Northwest Montana parishes, and provides the information below.
The diocese has agreed to post the full list on its website home page for at least 10 years, with the names and assignments of alleged perpetrators who are identified in the complaints filed in the Whalen and Does cases as child sexual abusers between the 1930s and 1970s.
The diocese said it is also listing priests against whom accusations of sexual abuse of minors have been made only to the diocese.
An introductory note on the list declares, “The Diocese hopes that this step helps to provide a pathway to healing for those who have been abused and brings light into a dark and difficult chapter in our diocesan Church.”
Priests accused in Northwest Montana:
Harry Butori — Ordained: 1952
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Richard’s Parish, Columbia Falls: summer 1957; St. Matthew’s Parish, Kalispell: 1957-59.
Died: March 14, 2005.
Harry Delaney — Ordained: 1925
Northwest Montana assignments: Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Eureka: 1936-54; Kalispell General Hospital: 1954-57.
Died: March 11, 1957.
George Ferguson — Ordained: 1956
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Catherine’s Parish, Bigfork: 1971-75; St. William Parish, Thompson Falls: 1978-80.
Died: June 12, 1986.
A.M.D. Gillen — ordained May 29, 1926 (in Canada)
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Richard’s, Columbia Falls: 1950-51.
Left diocese: Sept. 1, 1965; Died: July 30, 1987.
Daniel Harrington — Ordained: 1932
Northwest Montana assignments: Sacred Heart Parish, Ronan: 1942-1949.
Died: Nov. 23, 1997.
Robert Hartman — Ordained: 1947
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Richard’s Parish, Columbia Falls: 1965-73; St. Catherine’s Parish, Bigfork: 1985-94; Retired: March 1, 1994
Died: Aug. 12, 1996
John Kerrigan — Ordained: 1954
Northwest Montana assignments: St. James Parish, Plains: 1980-84; Sacred Heart Parish, Ronan: 1984.
Died: July 21, 1984
Bernard McCarthy — Ordained: 1947
Northwest Montana assignments: Sacred Heart, Ronan: 1957-68; Risen Christ, Evergreen: 1986-89; Retired: 1992.
Died: Sept. 16, 2003
Dusan Okorn — Ordained: 1947
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Richard’s Parish, Columbia Falls: 1958-63; St. Catherine’s Parish, Bigfork: 1963-71; Sycamore Center, Living Water Mission, Seeley Lake, Our Lady of the Swan Valley Mission, Condon: 1978-2006; Retired: 2006.
Died: Jan. 10, 2010
Wilson Smart — Ordained: 1957
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Richard’s Parish, Columbia Falls: 1969-74; Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Eureka: 1974-80; Leave of absence: 1990; Laicized: July 9, 2003.
Died: Nov. 10, 2006
Leonard Spraycar — Ordained: 1947
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Richard’s Parish, Columbia Falls: 1973-78.
Died: March 31, 1984.
Jesuit priests or brothers
Principally from Oregon Province, Society of Jesus (names provided by the plaintiffs; assignment information from the National Catholic Directory; other information is from the Oregon Province)
Joseph Balfe, SJ — Ordained: 1927
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1931-35; 1945-53.
Left diocese: 1953; Died: Sept. 29, 1969.
M.A. Dimier, SJ — Ordination date unavailable
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1930-50.
Died: June 14, 1950.
A.J. Ferretti, SJ (“Father Freddy”) — Ordained: 1941
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1953; 1964-69.
Left diocese: 1969; Died: June 28, 1982
Rene Gallant (“Brother Charlie”) SJ — no record of assignments.
Died: July 23, 1975 at St. Ignatius.
Louis Geis, SJ — Ordained: 1939
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish, St. Ignatius, 1959-62.
Left diocese 1992; Died: July 8, 1994.
Gabriel Menager, SJ — Ordination date unavailable
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1940-45.
Left Diocese: 1945; Died: July 28 1966.
Joseph Obersinner, SJ — Ordained: 1957
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1972-80.
Left Diocese: 1991.
Edmund Robinson (“Father Eddy”), SJ — Ordained: 1955
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1963-64; 1969-81; Left diocese in 1981.
Died: May 22, 2014.
Br. John Sorisio, SJ
Northwest Montana assignments: Worked at St. Ignatius from 1915 until his death on July 20, 1957.
Louis Taelman, SJ — Ordained: 1898
Northwest Montana assignments: St. Ignatius Mission Parish: 1930-40 and 1953-58.
Left Diocese: 1958; Died: December 24, 1961
Lay people at St. Ignatius
Mr. Crawford
Dave (last name unknown)
Ms. Knauf
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