Late Jesuit priest with ties to Corpus Christi has ‘credible allegations’ of sexual abuse

CORPUS CHRISTI (TX)
Corpus Christi Caller Times

Dec. 12, 2018

By Alexandria Rodriguez

A Jesuit priest accused of more than one incident of sexual abuse of a minor spent time in Corpus Christi.

The late J. Donald Pearce, who was in Corpus Christi in the 1970s, was included in a list of names of Jesuits, who were members of the U.S. Central and Southern Province, with “credible allegations.”

Jesuits are a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers.

The men included in the list, released on the Society of Jesuits’ website, fall into one of three categories.

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