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Summary of Case: John W. McDonald was an Oregon Province Jesuit priest, ordained in 1943. Most of his career was spent at Bellarmine Preparatory High School in Tacoma, WA. During the late 1940s through the 1950s he was assigned to St. Mary’s Indian Mission in Omak, WA, which was part of the Spokane diocese. McDonald’s name was included on that diocese’s 2007 list of priests and religious who were “admitted, proven or credibly accused perpetrators of sexual abuse.” He died in 1985.
Ordained: 1943
Died: Oct. 7, 1985
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