Fr. Francis Ackerson

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Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA
Diocese: Diocese of Harrisburg PA
Ordained in 1920. Named as credibly accused by the Saint Vincent Archabbey Benedictines in Latrobe PA in 8/18. The archabbey received an allegation in 2000 that Balko sexually abused a minor in 1963 or 1964, while assigned to St. Mary's in Erie. Included in 9/18 on the diocese's updated list of credibly accused. Balko died in 1985.
Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Removed from public ministry. Died in 12/20.
Ordained for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Appointed Pittsburgh Auxiliary Bishop in 1970. Bishop of Greensburg PA 1987 until his 2004 retirement. Died in 2/13. Accused in 2018 of inappropriately touching a nursing student in the late 1960s, while chaplain and instructor at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh. Included on the Pittsburgh diocese's list of those with allegations against them of child sexual abuse.
Accused of abuse of 2 youths. Apparently he was a priest of the Philadelphia archdiocese when some of the abuse occurred but became a Carmelite order priest in 1986. Diocese notified in 1993 and 1995. No assignments after 1994. Died in 1998.
Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Last shown in the Official Catholic Directory as at St. Joseph's in Milton PA 1977-78. Deceased.
Named publicly as accused in the 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report. Report to diocese 5/76 Connell made a sexual advance on a male high school student. In 10/07 a man told the Carmelites that when he was a Nativity High student, Connell abused him at least twice. He said he and his brother, whom he said was also abused, were living at the Order's priory after their house burned down, and that Connell drugged him and he woke up with a bleeding rectum. He said he told Bro. Timothy Johnson who then beat him, warning that he would beat him worse if he told police. The man said he had also been sexually abused in sixth grade in the 1970s by a basketball coach, Jim Gross, at St. Patrick's in Pottsville. Connell reportedly left the Order and became a diocesan priest in San Antonio TX in 1976. He worked at Antonian College Prep until 1988 as teacher, vice-principal, principal. Pastored St. Thomas More parish. Died in 1995. Two San Antonio accusers came forward after publicity in 2018. On San Antonio's list 1/31/19.
Diocese: Diocese of Pittsburgh PA
Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1978. Assigned to St. Joseph's in Mechanicsburg, St. Pius X in Selingsgrove, then St. Jude's in Mifflintown. Died 8/26/02.
Named publicly as credibly accused by the Pittsburgh diocese on its list in 8/18. Noted to have been removed from ministry. Doherty was reportedly removed from ministry in 1986, and allegations against him were not reported to law enforcement until 2007.
Diocese: Diocese of Pittsburgh PA
Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia PA
Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia PA
First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/18 PA Grand Jury Report. Report to diocese 12/74 from a woman that Ferraldo molested her 16-year-old son and other altar boys and hospital orderly. Timlin denied the allegations. Evaluated in 1985 after an allegation of inappropriate behavior with a hospital patient. In 2/86 Ferraldo was accused of sexual advances toward a 23-year-old male patient. He admitted to the behavior, and said he didn't know "what comes over him." Was told to go for evaluation and treatment. Granted Indefinite Leave of Absence 11/30/88. Died in 1997. In 2002 the diocese received a report from the Archdiocese of New York that a man alleged sexual abuse by Ferraldo when he was age 16 or 17 in 1982-83. On diocese's list 8/19/18.
Accused in a lawsuit filed in 11/21 of sexually abusing a boy, age 16, in 1981. The abuse allegedly occurred at Cardinal Dougherty High School, where Foley was on faculty and the boy was a student, and on a trip to a beach house. The priest gave the boy alcohol during the trip and allegedly sexually assaulted him. Foley admitted to giving the boy alcohol but denied abusing him.
Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 2/11/20.
Per the 2/10/11 Grand Jury Report II, a man told the archdiocese in 2007 that Gallagher repeatedly fondled him when he was a 7- or 8-year-old altar boy at St. Mark's in Bristol, PA. Another man had made a similar allegation the previous year. The man who came forward in 2007 reported that others had also been abused. The Review Board deemed both reports unsubstantiated in 2008. The man who came forward in 2007 died by suicide within a year of the Review Board's decision. Gallagher "retired." He was removed in 2/11. New suits in 4/11 and 9/12. Found unfit for ministry in 4/13. Permanently removed. Died 6/5/18. Funeral mass concelebrated by Bishop Maginnis.
Diocese: Archdiocese of Philadelphia PA
Monsignor. Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 4/22/88.
Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 8/21/94. Per his obituary, Grondziowski was assigned to Our Mother of Consolation in Mount Carmel 1941-55, and again 1966 until he retired in 1989. Also reportedly assigned 1955-66 to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pittsburg. Noted to have been "involved in Scouting and youth work."
Named publicly as accused by the diocese on its list in 4/20. Died 3/24/09. Per his obituary, Gross had a "long career in Boy and Girl Scouting, starting in 1939."
Priest of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Shown in the Toledo OH diocese in the 1989 Catholic Directory. Last shown the in 2012 Directory, at a Carthagena OH parish, Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Name on Harrisburg diocese's list released 8/1/18, noted to have "multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children." The list erroneously notes that he was deceased; he died in 2020 and is buried in Carthagena, OH. Included in the PA Grand Jury Report 8/14/18.
From Poland. Ordained for the Greenburg diocese. Placed on leave in 5/19 pending investigation by law enforcement of an allegation that he sexually abused a minor fifteen years prior. Pastor of St. Joseph in Everson and St. John the Baptist in Scottdale at the time of his suspension. Arrested in 8/20, charged with indecent assault and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with an altar boy for three years, beginning in 2004 when the boy was age 11. The abuse occurred at St. Cyril and Methodius Church in Fairchance. Kawecki pleaded no contest on 10/25/21. Required to register as a sex offender for ten years. Sentenced in 3/22 to 2 1/2 to 5 years in state prison.
Named publicly as accused on the Diocese of Harrisburg's list in 4/20. Had already been laicized for other reasons when diocese received allegations. Left the priesthood after nearly 25 years and married. Died 1/17/20, age 95.
Named publicly as accused by the diocese on its list in 4/20. Missionary in New Guinea 1964-1985; appears to have spent the remainder of his priesthood in PA. Per the list, Kriley was possibly deceased. A 12/21 church bulletin for St. Francis of Assisi in Cabot, PA (Diocese of Pittsburgh) shows Kriley's name listed under sick, suffering or homebound members of the parish community in need of prayer.