TAMPA BAY (FL)
Tampa Bay Times
November 6, 2018
By Waveney Ann Moore
Just a few weeks ago, a man sued the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg alleging that he had been abused as a child by one of its priests.
This week the diocese is being forced to respond to another allegation of priest misconduct, this time by the Rev. Nicholas McLoughlin, who served locally between 1972 and 1982 and has had some trouble at the nearby Diocese of Venice.
According to the Diocese of St. Petersburg, McLoughlin, now 76, is accused of “inappropriate physical contact with a minor” during the 1970s. The incident is alleged to have taken place while the priest was assigned to Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Temple Terrace.
McLoughlin served as pastor of Corpus Christi from 1973 to 1982 and as an associate pastor of St. John Vianney at St. Pete Beach and pastor of the now closed Bishop Barry High School and Notre Dame Academy in St. Petersburg from June 1972 to August 1973. The two schools merged to become St. Petersburg Catholic High School in the 1973-74 school year.
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