Fr. Philip A. Magaldi

Magaldi left Providence in 1988 after claims of financial mismanagement. He was accepted into the Ft. Worth diocese by Bishop Delaney in 1990. In 1992 he pleaded guilty to embezzlement in Rhode Island, then returned to ministry in Ft. Worth after eight months. There was an allegation in Ft. Worth in 1997 by a young man that Magaldi would pay him to give him enemas. Magaldi was still active until 1999, after an allegation that he raped a boy and paid the boy to give him enemas in the 1970s, while Magaldi was assigned in Rhode Island. The plaintiff died in 10/2000; the suit was dismissed. Magaldi retired. He was HIV positive. Laicization was requested. He died in 8/2008. Another claim settled 8/21/2012 in Ft. Worth. Included 7/1/2019 on the Providence diocese’s list of credibly accused. A lawsuit filed against in 9/2019 claimed abuse of a boy, ages 12-17, in the late 1970s-early 1980s, while Magaldi was pastor of St. Anthony’s in Providence. The suit was dismissed, the judge ruling that church leadership cannot be labeled “perpetrators.” The RI Supreme Court affirmed the ruling in 6/2023. The plaintiff also filed suit NY in 10/2020 claiming Magaldi sexually abused him during a trip to NYC in 1983; the suit was dismissed.