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Summary of Case: Rev. Bernard A. Harris, known as “Fr. Harry”, was a Jesuit of the Oregon Province ordained in 1947. Harris spent his career as an educator – initially at Bellarmine High School in Tacoma, WA, moving in the early 1950s to Loyola High School in Missoula, MT, where he taught until 1971 and, for several years, was principal. Harris also did parish work at St. Francis Xavier’s in Missoula. In the 2000s more than 20 people – male and female – have surfaced with claims that Harris sexually abused them as children. There is at least one claim that he molested a child at the Flathead Indian Reservation. Harris was the brother of the late Rev. James Harris, who has also been accused of child sexual abuse. Bernard Harris died Sept. 7, 1972.
Ordained: 1947
Died: Sept. 7, 1972
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