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Summary of Case: Virgilio Elizondo was ordained a priest of the San Antonio TX diocese in 1961. He has assisted in parishes, pastored a cathedral, was chaplain of a boys’ day and boarding school, has served as dean of studies and vice-rector of a seminary, and was founder and president of San Antonio’s Mexican-American Cultural Center. Elizondo has gained prominence though his career as a professor of Latino theology, and has been called the founder of Latino theology in the United States. He has been a Notre Dame University faculty member since 1999. In in a civil lawsuit filed May 22, 2015 Elizondo was accused of sexually abusing a male minor in 1983 in San Antonio. His accuser said the abuse occurred when he sought help from Elizondo for sexual abuse he said he had suffered by former seminarian and then Rev. Jesus Armando Dominguez. The lawsuit says Elizondo was driving the boy in a car when the boy told the Elizondo of the abuse by Dominguez, and that Elizondo reached over, kissed him and fondled him. Elizondo denies the abuse.
Ordained: 1961
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