LOUISIANA
What They Knew
There is another Jesuit priest we know very well on this site who almost escaped to Louisiana back in the early 1980s, notorious child sex abuser Donald McGuire SJ. In an exchange of documents between then Chicago Provincial Leo Klein SJ and the Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Sullivan of Baton Rouge, a notorious abuser of children himself.
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Bishop Joseph Sullivan knew he wanted Donald McGuire SJ closer to him
In the suit, a Houston man alleged that Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan abused him from 1978 to 1982, nearly two years of which he spent in the Corpus Christi Minor Seminary. The man, now 42, was a teenage students in the Baton Rouge minor seminary and transferred to Corpus Christi after schools closed in Baton Rouge and Lumberton. Sullivan remained bishop in Baton Rouge but would visit the boy at the Corpus Christi Minor Seminary, a high school for boys aspiring to the priesthood. A third accusation in 2005 named the diocese as a co-defendant with Sullivan in a civil lawsuit filed in Hawaii. It accused Sullivan of sexually abusing a minor during visits to Hawaii from 1969 to 1977.
Sullivan died in 1982.
But in 1981 Bishop Sullivan, a now named pedophile himself, sought to have Donald McGuire SJ transferred to Baton Rouge where he could work with students at Louisiana State University (LSU) or at a parish in Baton Rouge and help out at Mother Angelica’s fledgling EWTN TV. The exchange between the Chicago Province and the New Orleans Province and Bishop Sullivan is below. What is obvious from these letters, is that both the Chicago and New Orleans Provincials knew Donald McGuire SJ had serious enough problems that he would not be allowed to go to Louisiana.
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