Fr. Robert Louis Kealy
Chancellor. Lawyer, handled sex abuse cases in the Archdiocese. Member of the Archdiocesan Review Board. Quietly left Chancellor position in 1992 after a young adult reported that Kealy had made a pass at him at a party. Appointed pastor of Immaculate Conception in Highland Park. Report in 6/2001 of inappropriate sexual conduct with a 15- or 16-year-old boy in the 1970s at St. Germaine in Oak Lawn. Denied abuse, admitted to smoking marijuana and drinking with boys in the 1970s. No action by Review Board until complainant came forward again in 2002, threatening to go public. Kealy admitted to the abuse and to abusing two other children. Resigned from parish in 3/2002. Faculties removed “for at least a year” in 7/2005. Included in 3/2006 on the Archdiocese’s list of those with substantiated allegations. Resigned from active ministry in 4/2006. As of 2014 was still a priest, working as a lawyer. Laicized in 12/2018. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report, which notes additional allegations of abuse received after 2006.
- BA.org Assignment Record
- Kealy Personnel File released by archdiocese 11.14
- Jeff Anderson & Associates Timeline
- IL Attorney General’s Report Assignment Record 05.23.23
- Chicago Daily Herald 03.28.02
- Chicago Tribune 03.28.02
- Associated Press 03.29.02
- Chicago Sun-Times 03.29.02
- Chicago Tribune 04.10.02
- NY Times 05.14.02
- Dallas Morning News 06.12.02
- Chicago Sun-Times 01.17.03
- Chicago Tribune 09.26.05
- Chicago Daily Herald 09.27.05
- Chicago Archdiocesan Report 03.20.06
- Chicago Archdiocesan Report 09.15.08
- Chicago Tribune 11.12.14
- Associated Press 07.29.19
- Archdiocese of Chicago Updated List 06.08.21
- IL Attorney General’s Report 05.23 23
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