Archdiocese of San Antonio TX - BishopAccountability.org

50 Accused in This Diocese

Fr. Jose Aviles

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Ordained: 1990
Status: Accused

In 2002 Aviles was director of Assumption Seminary's vocation office. Removed from parish assignment in 2/04 over accusations involving an incident with a teenage boy in 1985, shortly before Aviles entered seminary. Complaint received 8/03; not immediately removed because the incident occurred prior to his ordination and archdiocese not sure canon law applied. After archdiocese found the allegation to be "substantive," Aviles was sent for long-term residential psychological treatment. A second allegation in 2004, of abuse of a teenage boy in 1994. Police notified. Permanently removed from ministry. Died in 2008. On archdiocese's list 1/31/19.

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Fr. Jose Leoca Cayetano Romero

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Ordained: 1926
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Full name Jose Leoca dio Cayetan de los Dolores. Died in 1978. Accused in 2015 of sexually abusing a boy in 1952 or 1953.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Theophilus Clerx

Order: OMI
Ordained: 1957
Status: Sued

Died: 12/17/2003
Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Worked in San Antonio 1959-1992. The archdiocese revealed in 2019 that there were seven allegations, six of the in 2011, dating to the 1990s. In 2002 Clerx was accused of sexually abusing a child in the early 1960s. He admitted to the abuse. Died 12/17/03. In 1/11, four sisters filed suit against the San Antonio archdiocese, alleging that Clerx molested them; one said he raped her repeatedly 1988-1992. The girls were minors and he was assigned to St. John Berchman's in San Antonio. Their mother worked for parish. Clerx gave the girls special privileges and visited them when mother was at work. One of the women reported the abuse to the Archdiocese in 2010. On archdiocese's list 1/31/19.

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BA.org Assignment Record

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Fr. Jose Luis Contreras

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Order: CMF
Ordained: 1967
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Ordained in the Diocese of Tepic, Mexico, for the Claretians. Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio Archdiocese on its list 1/31/2019, where he was assigned 1983-1988. Accused in 1987 of touching the genitals of a 17-year-old boy, who was a patient at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where Contreras was chaplain. Removed, sent to treatment. Faculties in the Archdiocese removed. Per the Archdiocese, Contreras said he was returning to his native Guadalajara to live with his sister. Returned to the states, worked in the Santa Rosa 1995-2000, on recommendation from the Diocese of Tepic. Spent a short time in 1998 as a chaplain at the WA State Reformatory near Seattle. Returned to Mexico in 2000. Celebrated the 50th anniversary of ordination in a parish in Colima, Mexico in 2017. Retired.

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Fr. Johnny Davila

Ordained: 1984
Status: Convicted

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

The archdiocese was notified in 12/93 that Davila had been accused of sexually abusing two girls. Arrested. Pled guilty. Sentenced to 7 years probation; ordered by court to undergo weekly counseling for an indefinite period. Laicized in 1999. Lifetime sex offender registration per website accessed 10/16/10. On archdiocese's list 1/31/19.

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Fr. Virgilio Elizondo

Ordained: 1963
Status: Sued

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Accused in a lawsuit filed 5/22/15 of the sexual abuse of a teenage boy in 1983 in San Antonio. The accuser said Elizondo kissed and fondled him after he told Elizondo that former seminarian and then-Rev. Jesus Armando Dominguez had sexually abused him. Elizondo denied abuse. Longtime University of Notre Dame professor, known as founder of Latino theology in the U.S. Still in ministry 6/8/15. Died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound 3/14/16. On San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/19.

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BA.org Assignment Record

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Fr. Federico Fernandez Baeza

Order: OFM
Ordained: 1977
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Chicago-St. Louis Province Franciscan, in San Antonio 1981-1987. Accused in a 1988 lawsuit of abusing two boys. Church promised to investigate and asked parents to keep quiet. Sent to treatment. The boys' older brother said the priest abused him, too. Previously arrested for public indecency. Criminal charges dismissed. Civil suit settled in 7/1988. In 2002 a man said he told Archbishop Flores in 1983 about seeing Fernandez naked in a swimming pool with two girls, ages 10 and 11. Active priest in 5/2011 in Bogota, Colombia. One alleged victim who said Fernandez Baeza molested and raped him as a 5th-grader was convicted of rape and murder in 1995; he was executed in 2011 by the State of Texas. Fernandez Baeza was working in 2015 at Universidad de San Buenaventura in Cartagena, and posting "Sunday Reflections" on a Bogota church's website. On San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/2019. It notes eight allegations. Removed in 2015 in Colombia by the Franciscans, case referred to the Vatican. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report, which notes at least eight "reported survivors." Included on the Franciscans' Our Lady of Guadalupe Province list of credibly accused as of 1/2024. (Member of the Sacred Heart Pronvince.)

Br. Eugene T. Fitzsimmons

Order: SM
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Professed vows as a Marianist brother in 1947. Worked at high schools in IL, TX, WI, CA, MO, HI. Per news in 2002, Fitzsimmons was accused of sexually abusing Michael Rodriguez 20 years prior when Rodriguez was a student at Catholic High School in San Antonio. Rodriguez, who was one of the "Texas Seven" prison escapees who shot and killed a police officer 12/24/2000, claimed in the penalty portion of his trial for this murder that Fitzsimmons abused him. Defense attorney brought Fitzsimmons to TX to testify at trial. Fitzsimmons invoked the Fifth Amendment and did not testify. Withdrew from the Order in 2000. Died in 2011. Name included on the Marianists' list 6/24/2020. Included on the Belleville diocese's list 9/20/2022. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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Fr. John A. Flynn

Ordained: 1952
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

From Ireland. Monsignor. Admitted in 10/1997 to a "sexual encounter" with a female adolescent more than 20 years prior. She had written to the Archdiocese in 9/1997, alleging he abused her as a teenager in the 1960s and sexually assaulted her as a young adult in the 1970s. Removed from ministry and sent to a MD treatment center for evaluation. Resigned the same year from ministry in the San Antonio archdiocese. Allowed by Bishop Carmody in 1998 to minister in the Tyler TX diocese. Retired in 2002; continued active ministry. In 2005 the San Antonio archdiocese gave new information to the Tyler diocese showing a possible credible allegation of the sexual abuse of a girl occurring in the 1960s-1970s. Removed from ministry. Case sent to the Vatican. Returned to restricted ministry in 2008. After a review in 2018, again removed from ministry. Included on the San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/2019. On the Tyler diocese's list of credibly accused in 4/2019.

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Fr. Richard Garcia

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Ordained: 1974
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Died in 1985. Credible allegation in a civil demand after Garcia's death.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Marshall T. Gherman

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Order: CSsR
Ordained: 1931
Status: Accused

Died: 11/26/1959
Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 6/19/19. Worked in the archdiocese 1940-46, 1952, and 1954-57. Died in 1959. In 2004 two people alleged abuse by Gherman as children in the 1950s. One of them said she knew of three other victims.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Francisco Gomez

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Order: OFM Cap
Ordained: 1976
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Ordained for the San Antonio archdiocese. Joined the Capuchin Franciscans in1980. Died in 1998. Accused in 2004 of sexually abusing a teenage boy in the late 1970s. Archdiocese deemed the allegation credible.

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Diocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Benigno David Gonzalez Zumaya

Ordained: 1977
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

In 2008 a man alleged that he was molested as a boy 1978-1982 by Zumaya and Revs. Louis White and Larry Hernandez. The priests were assigned at the time to San Fernando Cathedral. Zumaya may also have abused the boy while assigned to Carrizo Springs. The Archdiocese admitted that there had been previous allegations of an undefined nature in the past which had been "handled" at the time. Two more accusers later came forward. Zumaya left ministry in 1998 without faculties and retired to his native Guadalajara, Mexico, where he was allowed to minister. Name included on the Archdiocese of San Antonio list 1/31/2019. It notes 9 allegations, the first one received in 1997, leading to his removal. Gonzalez Zumaya died in 2013.

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Fr. Michael Harrold

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Ordained: 1950
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Became a priest of the Diocese of Victoria when in was created in 1983. Died in 2015. Accused in 2018 of abusing a girl in the 1970s. Found credible.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Gabriel Hentrich

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Order: OCD
Ordained: 1940
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the Dallas diocese and the San Antonio archdiocese on their lists 1/31/19. Accused in 2018 of sexually abusing a child in the 1950s. Hentrich died in 1992.

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Fr. Larry Hernandez

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Ordained: 1978
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Ordained for the archdiocese. Joined the Order of the Most Holy Trinity (OSST) in 1985. Accused in 2008 of sexually abusing a boy in 1978. Another allegation followed. Removed from ministry by the Trinitarians in 2008. Case referred to Vatican. Prohibited from public ministry and placed under supervision. Later left the Order. On archdiocese's list 1/31/19.

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Fr. Hubert Joseph Janak

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Ordained: 1941
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

On 1/29/12 the San Antonio Archdiocese posted a Public Notice on its website stating that it had "recently received separate accusations" of sexual abuse of minors against Janak and Fr. Michael O'Sullivan. Janak served in multiple parishes in the San Antonio AD (including some now in the Victoria Diocese). Notice said allegation was forwarded to the Bexar Co. District Att., and that Janak died 6/26/96. On the archdiocese's list 1/31/19. It notes an allegation in 2010 of abuse of a girl in the 1950s, and his death as in 1994.

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Fr. Edward John Jansky

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Ordained: 1930
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Retired in 1974. Died in 1979. Accused in 2002 of sexually abusing two children in 1957, one known to have been a girl. In a review of Jansky's file in 2013, the archdiocese discovered an allegation of child sexual abuse in 1962.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. John Francis Keane

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Ordained: 1957
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

From Ireland. Worked in the archdiocese 1957-1961, in six parishes. Police report in Keane's file from 1957, accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl. No charges. Dismissed from the archdiocese in 1961 after found wearing a dress in a parish school's women's restroom. Sent to Ireland for treatment. Continued in ministry in Ireland and Great Britain. Died in 2001.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Michael Christopher Kenny

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Ordained: 1973
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

From Ireland. Suspended in 2000 when two women brought sexual misconduct allegations against him. Kenny testified that he fathered two illegitimate children and had sexual intercourse with both adult women and minor girls. Two suits filed. One settled 2/03 for $300K and 2nd settled 9/03 for undisclosed amount. Kenny was living in Ireland as of 2003. May have been laicized.On the archdiocese's list 1/31/19. Case referred to the Vatican for possible laicization.

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Fr. James Khoury

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Ordained: 1975
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Maronite Rite priest, ordained for the Eparchy of St. Maron. Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Assigned 1977-85 to St. George Maronite Church, and 1981-83 was president of Antonian High School. Accused in the mid-1980s of sexually abusing a student. Settlement in 1985. Removed from the San Antonio area by his Eparchy. The alleged victim told the Archdiocese in 2004, then filed suit against the Archdiocese. Suit dismissed in 2006. Khoury died in 2016.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. William Lievens

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Order: CICM
Ordained: 1954
Status: Accused

Died: 03/11/1972
Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Worked in the archdiocese 1957-72. Died in 1972. Allegation in 2018 that Lievens sexually abused a child in the 1950s.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Carlos Lozano

Order: OMI
Ordained: 1993
Status: Convicted

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Oblate brother for several years prior to ordination. Convicted 1994 for abuse of 4 boys. Sentenced to 30 days in jail and 10 years probation (deferred adjudication). Civil suit filed 1994. Left priesthood in 1994. One victim died by suicide in 1997. Shortly before probation ended in 2004, Lozano was arrested for computer pornography; judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison for each of 4 prior convictions (to be served concurrently). On archdiocese's list 1/31/19. It notes 7 allegations. Lozano was laicized in 2003 and died in prison.

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Fr. Emmet Malone

Order: OFM
Ordained: 1947
Status: Settled

Died: 06/19/1994
Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Accused in a 2004 lawsuit of molesting an 11-year-old boy in the early 1950s, under the guise of teaching the boy how to pray. The Franciscans stated that "we believe something did happen," and the suit was settled. Malone also worked at Corpus Christi parish and school in the Chicago, IL archdiocese. On the San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/21/2019. It notes an allegation received in 2001 of abuse in the 1950s of a boy and his brother. Died 6/19/1994. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report. Included on the Franciscans' Our Lady of Guadalupe Province list of credibly accused as of 1/2024. Member of the Sacred Heart Province.

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Fr. Alfred Harry Martin

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Ordained: 1966
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Ordained for the Diocese of Belize in Belize. Incardinated into the San Antonio archdiocese in 1977, where he had been working since 1972. Accused in 2002 of abuse of a male teen 1975-77. Left ministry. No faculties. Case referred to the Vatican for possible laicization.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Mario Martinez

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Ordained: 1977
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the archdiocese on its list 1/31/2019. Left assignment without permission in 1977, saying he was going home to Mexico to care for his sick mother. Returned in 1984. Sent for alcoholism treatment in 1985. Left treatment without permission, then alleged to have sexually abused a child. Warrant out for his arrest, fled to Mexico. Faculties in San Antonio removed. Died in 1994. Two more allegations of child sex abuse in 2008.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Jesus Eduardo Martinez-Solis

Ordained: 2007
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

From Mexico. Ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago. Incardinated into the Archdiocese of San Antonio in 2021. Assigned to St. Joseph Church-Honey Creek in Spring Branch TX in 7/2023 when the Archdiocese received an allegation of the grooming and sexual abuse of a minor against Martinez-Solis. Removed from ministry pending investigation. The Archdiocese found "sufficient evidence" of the abuse and referred the matter to the Vatican.

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Fr. Jon McMahon

Order: OMI
Ordained: 1975
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Worked at the archdiocesan high school seminary in the 1970s. Two known credible allegations against him. Laicized in 2002.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Patrick J. McNulty

Order: SM
Ordained: 1966
Status: Sued

Died: 03/24/1984
Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Professed vows as a Marianist in 1952. Ordained in 1966. Worked in IL and TX. A woman filed suit in 2004 against the archdiocese and order alleging that McNulty abused her for three years in the 1970s, starting when she was age 12. McNulty was assigned to Holy Rosary Parish at the time of the alleged abuse. Another person told the Assistant Provincial in 1977, but at that time the girl and her family denied the abuse. McNulty was transferred to another assignment in 1980. He died in 1984 in WI. Included on the San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/2019. Included on the Marianists' 6/24/2020 list of accused. On the Belleville diocese's list 9/20/2022. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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Fr. Thomas Aquinas McSwiggan

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Ordained: 1967
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Accused in 2000 of sexually abusing a teenage boy in the 1970s. McSwiggan stayed in ministry until 2005. Died in 2014.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Galeb Mokarzel

Order: OMI
Ordained: 1959
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as credibly accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Also on the San Angelo diocese's list 2/13/19. Accused of abuse of a teenage boy at St. Ann's in Midland in the 1960s. Allegedly "molested, kissed and fondled" the boy over a ten-year period, beginning when the boy was a student at St. Anthony High School Seminary in San Antonio. Mokarzel allegedly stalked and "finally sexually assaulted him." Removed from ministry by his Order. Retired without ministry in 1997. Living under supervision in 2019 at an Oblate's retirement facility in San Antonio. Said to have died in 2021.

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Fr. Michael J. O’Sullivan

Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 08/2/2013
Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

From Ireland, where he was ordained for the Archdiocese of San Antonio. On 1/29/2012 the archdiocese posted a Public Notice on its website stating that it had recently received an allegation that O'Sullivan abused a child in the 1960s. Per the archdiocese on its list 1/2019, there were ten known allegations, of abuse beginning in 1962. Removed in 1964 and sent for treatment in GA. Not allowed to return to the San Antonio archdiocese. Accepted by the Savannah diocese in 1965. Removed in 1971 for abuse of a child. Returned to Ireland, more allegations there. Case sent by the San Antonio archdiocese in 2006 to the Vatican for possible laicization. Died in 2013. His obituary refers to him as "Fr. Mikey Joe O'Sullivan." On the Savannah diocese's list 11/8/2018. Included in the 3/24/2023 GA PAC Report.

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GA PAC Report 03.24.23

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Deacon James Orr

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Ordained: 1997
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Deacon.Assigned 1997-2016 to Our Lady of the Atonement. Accused in 1992 or 1993, prior to ordination as a deacon, of molesting a boy in a neighborhood pool. Orr was a volunteer at Our Lady of the Atonement at the time. The parish pastor admitted in 2016 to having received the allegation in the early 1990s, and decided at the time that it was not credible. He did not inform the archbishop. Accused in 2007 of attempting to sexually abuse a boy in about 1995. Allegations in 12/15 that Orr sexually abused two boys in the 1990s. Orr resigned shortly thereafter. Faculties removed. Lawsuit in 2017 claimed abuse in 1993. Orr died in 2019.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Alejandro Ortega

Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Former Legionaries of Christ priest, incardinated into the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2/2021. The Archdiocese received an allegation in 6/2023 that Alejandro sexually abused a teenager. Removed from ministry in 8/2023. A private investigator informed the Archdiocese on 7/27/2023 that there was "sufficient evidence" of the abuse. It also found that Ortega had engaged in "sexually inappropriate and unwanted physical touch, usually with adult women." Ortega was assigned to St. Monica's in Converse at the time of his removal. Matter referred to the Vatican. No criminal charges.

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Fr. Javier Ortiz-Dietz

Ordained: 1978
Status: Convicted

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

First accused in 1992. Removed, sent to treatment. Indicted in 1993 for abusing three altar boys over a two-year period. Convicted in 1994. Sentenced to three 20-year jail sentences (to run concurrently). At least ten civil suits were filed, four in 1993 and six in 1994. One victim died by suicide. Settlement for $4M with seven victims in 6/1998. A 1974 report from his Mexican college to the archdiocese warned that Ortiz-Dietz suffered from "marked sexual conflict," paranoia and delusions. Laicized in 2005. Released in 2014, deported to Mexico. In 2015 San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, MSpS sent notice of Ortiz-Dietz' laicization to the Mexico Bishop' Conference and to the Archbishop of Puebla. Ortiz-Dietz was believed to be living in Puebla. Included on the archdiocese's list 1/31/2019, which notes 16 allegations.

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Fr. Austin N. Park

Order: SJ
Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused in 12/18 by the Jesuits' Central and Southern Province. Abuse allegedly occurred in the 1960s. Worked in El Paso, TX; San Antonio, TX; Miami, FL; Grand Coteau, LA; Tampa, FL; New Orleans, LA; Houston, TX; Greenville, SC; Kinder, LA; Shreveport, LA; Mobile, AL; Puerto Rico; Oakdale, LA. Died in 2013. On San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/19. A family member reported in 2013 that Park had abused two children in the archdiocese in the late 1950s-early 1960s. On Charleston diocese's list 3/29/19. On Lake Charles diocese's list 4/11/19.

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Jesuits Central and Southern List 12.07.18

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Fr. Edward Pavlicek

Ordained: 1983
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Allegations to diocese in 8/18 that Pavlicek sexually assaulted a child in the late 1980s. Suspended in 10/18. On the archdiocese's list 1/31/19. Case referred to the Vatican for possible laicization. Prohibited from ministry in the archdiocese.

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Fr. Alfredo Prado

Order: OMI
Ordained: 1958
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Per Order, Prado was stripped of all clerical authority in 1991 after accusations that he abused boys, and because of his theological opinions. At least five known alleged victims; civil suit filed 2/04. As of 1/03 Prado was celebrating mass and marrying couples in Costa Rica (without official permission). Child welfare agency in Costa Rica were investigating circumstances of two minors living on the grounds of the "Sanctuary" operated by a "doomsday group." On Corpus Christi diocese's list 1/31/19. On Amarillo and Victora diocese's and San Antonio archdiocese's lists 1/31/19. "Event" alleged to have occurred in the Amarillo diocese when Prado was conducting a mission. On San Angelo diocese's list 2/13/19. Laicized in 2006. Deceased.

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Fr. Jesus Jeremias Rojas

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Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

From the Archdiocese of Huancayo, Peru. Rojas was assigned to a parish in San Antonio for less than a month in late 1962. He was dismissed from the Archdiocese after an allegation that he sexually abused a young girl. He admitted to the abuse. Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/2019.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Donald Ruppert

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Ordained: 1978
Status: Sued

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Accused in a 2003 lawsuit of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy on several occasions in 1978. Ruppert's accuser said he suppressed the memories until they "violently resurfaced" in 1/03, and that he was hospitalized. Ruppert was a counselor and teacher at the time of the alleged abuse. He denied the allegations. Ruppert became a priest of the Diocese of Victoria when it was established in 1982. The diocese deemed the allegations not credible. Remains in active ministry in 2019. On the San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/19.

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Fr. Jose Luis Sandoval

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Ordained: 1974
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Accused in 6/1998 of abusing an 11-year-old boy in 1976. Archdiocese investigated; said information "believable". Removed. Fled to Guadalajara, Mexico; allowed ministry there based on a positive recommendation from San Antonio until removed by the archbishop in 2004. While reviewing files in 2002, the San Antonio archdiocese found a 1985 allegation that Sandoval attempted abuse of a teenage boy. No action until 1993, when he was sent for evaluation to Programa Genesis in Mexico for six month. He received good report and was reassigned in the Archdiocese of San Antonio in 1995. Name included on the archdiocese's list 1/31/2019, noting six allegations. Case referred to the Vatican for possible laicization. Appeared in 2019 to be pastor of Nuestra Senora de Belen, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, in the Diocese of Guadalajara.

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Fr. Jerzy Sieczynski

Ordained: 2000
Status: Indicted

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Arrested on charges of indecent exposure at a public park in 9/2003. Placed on leave from St. Matthew Parish. Pleaded guilty in 11/2003; received one year probation. In 1/2004 a cable repairman found child abuse images on Sieczynski's home computer. Indicted in 2005. Pleaded guilty to 4 counts in 5/2006. Sentenced to three years in prison in 8/2006. Released in 7/2009. Living in San Antonio per TX Sex Offender Registry entry dated 8/2009. Classified as high risk offender. Included on the Archdiocese's list of accused 1/31/2019. In 10/2024 the TX Sex Offender Registry shows Sieczynski to be "Out of Country (Poland -ml wolnosci)."

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Sr. Agnes

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Order: OSB
Status: Sued

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

In a 1991 or 1992 lawsuit, a woman age 57 claimed sexual, physical, and emotional abuse as a child by Sister Agnes, a teacher in the elementary school of Immaculate Heart of Mary church in San Antonio. The lawsuit named the archdiocese, the Benedictine Sisters, who staffed the school, and the Claretian Missionaries, who staffed the parish. The Benedictine Sisters are listed in the 1945 Official Catholic Directory as Benedictine Sisters of Diocesan Jurisdiction, who also maintained a Motherhouse and Novitiate of Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica's Convent in San Antonio. The complaint stated that the girl reported the abuse in confession with two priests of the parish: Fr. Leonard Cuellar CMF and Fr. Raymond Sunyé CMF (the pastor). After an injury in Spring 1990, a CAT scan caused the woman to react with fear and hysteria. Referred to a psychiatrist, she recovered memories of the abuse that had previously been repressed. A lower court dismissed the suit. Appeals court affirmed the dismissal in February 1994.

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Sanchez v Archdiocese of San Antonio, TX Court of Appeals, 02.23.94

Fr. William Sprigler

Ordained: 1975
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Ordained for the San Antonio archdiocese. Accused in 1976 of abuse of two boys. Sent to treatment at Paraclete's in NM. Granted indefinite leave in 1978 to join the Paraclete Fathers. Did not finish process of joining Paracletes. Moved to New Ulm MN diocese 1983, incardinated there in 1988. Director of Priest Personnel 1984-89. Retired in 2016, worked as fill-in priest two FL dioceses and New Ulm. Removed from ministry in 12/18, permanently removed 1/19. On San Antonio's list 1/31/19.

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Diocese of New Ulm accessed 02.27.19

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Herald Journal 09.17.07
KEYC TV 01.25.19
Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19
Diocese of New Ulm accessed 02.27.19

Fr. Albert Storme

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Order: CICM
Ordained: 1940
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Worked in the archdiocese 1955-64 and 1976-85. Died in 1990. Two people alleged in 2004 that Storme sexually abused them as children, one in 1949 and the other in the 1950s.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Francis Sales Strobel

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Ordained: 1905
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Ordained for the Diocese of Little Rock, AK. Incardinated into the San Antonio archdiocese in 1918. Retired to Germany in 1958. Died in 1969. Allegation in 2003 that Stroble sexually abused a girl in 1941.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Marion T. Swize

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Ordained: 1959
Status: Sued

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

A 56-year-old woman filed suit 2/05 alleging abuse by Swize beginning when she was age 14 or 15, and lasting for 3 years. Swize was teacher and volleyball coach at St. John the Evangelist School at the time. (A 2/05 news article mis-identifies him as "Myron Suize." The Official Catholic Directories do not show anyone by that name.) Swize is included on the San Antonio archdiocese's list 1/31/19. It notes he left the priesthood in 1969 to marry. He denied the allegations. The archdiocese found them credible.

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MySA 02.25.05
Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Paul Van Houtteghem

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Order: CICM
Ordained: 1948
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

Named publicly as accused by the San Antonio archdiocese on its list 1/31/19. Worked in the archdiocese 1949-88. Accused in 1988 of sexually abusing a girl in the 1950s. Removed, sent to treatment. Died in 2001 in Belgium.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio List 01.31.19

Fr. Patrick J. Walsh

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Order: MSC
Ordained: 1952
Status: Accused

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

First named publicly as accused on Little Rock diocese's 9/10/2018 list. Worked in diocese 1976-1987. Suspended by Order in 2004. Died in 2011. One known victim. Per news in 2/2019, a 60-year-old man told the archdiocese on 2/1/2019 that Walsh abused him 50 years prior, when he was an altar boy at St. Anthony's in San Antonio TX. (The 1970 Official Catholic Directory, which reflects 1969-1970, confirms that Walsh was there.) He said Walsh would fondle him and give him money repeatedly over a two-year period. He said he confronted Walsh 30 years prior, and that the priest both denied the abuse and asked for forgiveness. On the Covington diocese's list 7/31/2020; assigned in 1971 to Christ the King in Lexington. On Lexington's list in 8/2020, noting he was at Lexington Catholic High 1971-1974 and that there are two, possibly three, known victims in Lexington. Walsh would take children to a lake house.

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Fr. Louis Paul White

Ordained: 1975
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of San Antonio TX

In 2008 a man told the archdiocese that White and two other priests molested him as a minor at San Fernando Cathedral 1978-82. In 2009 the archdiocese made the allegation public and said previous allegations had been "handled" at that time. One man filed suit 11/18/10 claiming 1976-77 abuse. Case with archdiocese settled 1/7/13. A separate Default Judgment for $181M taken against White who represented himself but did not show for the trial. On the archdiocese's list 1/31/19. It notes he was sent to treatment in 1980 after an allegation. Reassigned in 1981 and abused again. Sent again to treatment in 1986. Reassigned with restrictions. Left ministry in 1988. Laicized in 1989.

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Archdiocese of San Antonio Updated Assignment Record

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