Fr. Joseph Patrick Kissane

Ordained: 1969
Status: Settled

Died: 04/7/2011
Diocese: Archdiocese of Chicago IL

Included on the Archdiocesan list of accused in 3/2006. Included in a 10/2003 settlement. The Archdiocese settled at least one claim in a 5/2007 $6.65M settlement. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General’s Report, which shows a first allegation to the Archdiocese in 6/1989, that Kissane sexually abused a girl 1978-1979 at St. Catherine’s in Oak Lawn. He admitted the abuse of her and two other girls. Kept in ministry. Archdiocese didn’t investigate until 1/1990. One priest said grade school girls would hang around Kissane, including in the rectory, and become “attached.” Another allegation in 8/1990. Accuser filed suit. Admitted to “sexual involvement” with nine girls, as young as age 14. Faculties withdrawn in 4/91, resigned in 5/1991. Accused in 8/1994 of raping a girl 20 years prior at St. Catejan. Review board said it would not investigate and would not try to contact the victim because Kissane had already resigned. Laicized in 8/2010. Died in 4/2011.

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