Retired North Tonawanda priest put on leave over abuse complaint

BUFFALO (NY)
Buffalo News

October 3, 2018

By Jay Tokasz

Bishop Richard J. Malone on Tuesday suspended another retired priest accused of sexual abuse from serving in parishes, bringing to 15 the number of Buffalo Diocese priests who have been put on administrative leave since March.

The diocese announced late Tuesday afternoon on its website that the Rev. Louis S. Dolinic has been placed on administrative leave as the complaint is investigated.

Dolinic, 77, lives in a Depew residence for retired priests. He spent most of his priesthood in North Tonawanda and was pastor of Our Lady of Czestochowa Church when he retired in 2010.

The diocese provided no details about when the abuse was alleged to have happened or where Dolinic was assigned at the time.

Dolinic was ordained in 1966 and served as an assistant pastor at St. Barbara Church in Lackawanna and at St. Andrew Church in Sloan in his early priesthood.

He was then assigned as an assistant pastor of St. Joseph Church in North Tonawanda in the 1970s. He served at St. John Kanty Church in Buffalo in the 1980s, before being assigned to North Tonawanda again in the late 1980s, this time as pastor of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

In 1995, he was appointed pastor of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Depew.

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