Fr. Nicholas J. Spagnolo
Personnel files released in 2/2003 show that Spagnolo was accused of molesting teenage girls in the 1960s. One accuser went to the Archdiocese and Order in 1993 and he admitted he “violated boundaries” while counseling females in the 1960s. He was ordered not to minister without supervision. He continued to try to organize retreats for lay and religious women. In 2002 he was working in Lexington MA. Spagnolo died 12/25/2013. His name is included in 1/2021 on the Diocese of Fall River’s list of accused. Noted to have had “limited faculties to assist in charitable work on Cape Cod.”
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