Rev. Benedict Joseph Mawn, C.P.- Assignment Record

Assignment Record– Rev. Benedict Joseph Mawn, c.p.

Summary of Case: A Passionist priest ordained in 1945, Mawn worked in the Archdioceses of Baltimore, Hartford and Boston, and the dioceses of Buffalo, Scranton, Manchester, Worcester and Springfield in MA. He died July 17, 1998. Mawn was accused in a 2007 lawsuit of having sexually abused a boy at a Boston parish in 1976.

Ordained: 1945
Died: July 17, 1998

Start	Stop	Parish	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1945 Baltimore archbishop was Michael Joseph Curley (1921-1947).	1946	St. Joseph's Passionist Monastery	Baltimore	MD
1946 Buffalo bishop was John Francis O'Hara, C.S.C. (1945-1951).	1949	Holy Cross Preparatory Seminary	Dunkirk	NY		Holy Cross had 115-94 seminarians. The 1948 Directory indexes but does not list Mawn in the Buffalo diocesan pages as at this assignment.
1949 Scranton bishop was William Joseph Hafey (1938-1954).	1952	St. Ann's	Scranton	PA		St. Ann's had a grade school with 283-301 students, and a high school with 116-100 students. Mawn is indexed in the Directories as at St. Ann's, but is not listed there in the Scranton diocesan pages.
1952 Baltimore archbishop was Francis Patrick Keough (1947-1961).	1957	St. Joseph's Passionist Monastery	Baltimore	MD
1957 Hartford archbishop was Henry Joseph O'Brien (1945-1968).	1959	Holy Family Monastery	Farmington	CT
1959 Keough was succeeded as Baltimore archbishop by Lawrence Joseph Shehan (1961-1974).	1962	St. Joseph's Passionist Monastery	Baltimore	MD		The 1962 Directory indexes but does not list Mawn in the Baltimore archdiocesan pages as at St. Joseph's.
1962 Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970).	1963	St. Gabriel Monastery	Boston (Brighton)	MA
1963 Springfield archbishop was Christopher Joseph Weldon (1950-1977).	1968	Our Mother of Sorrows Monastery (Passionist Fathers)	West Springfield	MA	Retreat Master 1965-1967	The 1968 Directory indexes but does not list Mawn in the Springfield diocesan pages as at this monastery.
1968 Worcester bishop was Bernard Joseph Flanagan (1959-1983).	1969	Passionist Fathers	Worcester	MA
1969 Cushing was followed as Boston archbishop by Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970-1983).	1978	St. Gabriel Monastery	Boston (Brighton) • Mawn was accused in a 2007 lawsuit of having sexually abused a boy at St. Gabriel's in 1976.	MA		The 1976 Directory indexes but does not list Mawn as at this monastery.
1978	1979	St. Catherine of Siena	Norwood	MA	4/6	St. Catherine's had a school with 821 students.
1979 Bernard Francis Law succeeded Medeiros (1984-2002).	1984	St. Mary's	Winchester	MA	4/5, 4/4, 6/6 In residence.	St. Mary's had a school with 205-238 students.
1984	1989	St. Louis de France (French)	Lowell	MA	3/4 In residence.	St. Louis' had a grade school with 276-218 students, and a high school with 130-110 girls.
1989 Manchester bishop was Odore Joseph Gendron (1974-1990), followed by Leo Edward O'Neill (1990-1997), and John Brendan McCormack (1998-2011).	1999	St. Mark's	Londonderry	NH		Address given is Box 946 Londonderry, NH. Passionist Historical Archives states Mawn lived at St. Mark's. Mawn died July 17, 1998.

Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1946-1999)

• JOHN DOE Nos. 30 - 68 and MARY ROE Nos. 6 - 8, v. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, C.A. 05-0006, Dec. 27, 2007
• Letter to Dr. Mary Jane Doherty, Chairperson of the Archdiocese of Boston Review Board, July 27, 2011
• Mass. Group Discloses New Names of Accused Priests, By Jay Lindsay, Boston Globe, July 28, 2011
• Passionist Historical Archives, August 2011

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This assignment record was last updated on October 27, 2015.