UNITED STATES
The Cardinal Newsman Society
May 29, 2013 | By Tim Drake |
Documents released last week as part of a settlement reveal that Chicago Jesuits concealed the crimes of convicted sex offender Fr. Donald McGuire, S.J. for more than 40 years. During that time Fr. McGuire worked at a variety of Jesuit educational institutions.
The documents were part of a $19.6 million settlement between the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus and six men from four states announced on Tuesday.
According to a record of his assignments, between 1965 and 1981, Fr. McGuire worked at a variety of educational institutions, including: Loyola Academy in Chicago, Newman College, and the University of San Francisco’s Ignatius Institute.
A 1970 letter written by the Rev. John H. Reinke, then-president of Loyola Academy in Wilmette, described Fr. McGuire’s presence at the school as “positively destructive and corrosive.”
While the settlement doesn’t name any priests accused of abusing minors who have not been previously disclosed to the public, it did name a number of Jesuit superiors who kept Fr. McGuire’s crimes a secret and, the victims’ attorneys said, which enabled him to abuse more young men.
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