Fr. Kenneth L. Harris
First named publicly as accused on the Diocese of Steubenville’s list 10/31/2018. Noted to have been suspended from ministry in 1963. Per the 1943 Official Catholic Directory, Harris was a priest of the the Natchez MS diocese. By 1950 he was Absent On Leave from Natchez, in San Bernardino, CA, back in MS by 1951, then Absent on Leave again in the 1952 Directory. By 1953 he was still on leave from Natchez, in the Diocese of Steubenville. He died 6/22/1964. On the Jackson diocese’s list 3/19/2019. It notes alleged abuse in 1951 in Steubenville, reported in 1998 and 2003.
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