Fr. Alphonsus P. Ferguson
From Ireland. Per the Ames Daily Tribune of 10/29/1941, Ferguson had just returned from China after spending 10 years in the missions field. The same article refers to him as a member of the St. Columban’s Mission Society of Omaha. A 1919 news article places him in St. Louis MO, and announces that he was soon to leave for mission work in China. He was a member of the Franciscan Servants of the Sacred Heart out of Omaha, NE per 2014 articles. A man who was an altar boy at Guardian Angels Church in Hastings, MN in the early 1950s filed a civil suit 7/2/2014 alleging anal rape by Ferguson and referring to multiple other victims. Ferguson was at Guardian Angels 1951-1965. Worked in MN, NY, NE, IA and Ireland. Died in the 1973 (apparently in Ireland). Included in 2/2022 on the Columbans’ U.S. Province list of credibly accused. It notes two allegations, of abuse 1957-1958 and 1963-1964.
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