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Summary of Case: Thomas E. Connolly was ordained for the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus in 1963. After several years in the Madison and Green Bay dioceses in WI, he spent much of the 1970s among the Colville Indians in WA state. In 1977 he began a long career at Sacred Heart in Desmet ID, which is a Coeur d’Alene Indian Mission. Connolly was also affiliated with Gonzaga University. He retired to the Regis Jesuit Community in Spokane in 2010.
Connolly’s name was included on the Jesuits’ Oregon Province’s list in 2011 of perpetrators of sexual abuse, which included “all members of the province who are identified as perpetrators of sexual abuse in proofs of claims filed in the bankruptcy case, and who have not denied the allegation.”
Ordained: 1963
Retired: 2010
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