22 Accused in This Religious Order
- Irish Independent 03.03.58
- News4Jax 03.21.19
- Diocese of St Augustine Statement 03.22.19
- Diocese of St Augustine List 11.06.20
- News4Jax 02.04.21
- Irish Independent 0716.56
- Anchorage Daily News 06.09.79
- Findagrave 11.04.19
- Archdiocese of Anchorage List 01.16.20
Fr. James C. Collery

Fr. Tim Crowley
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Fr. Daniel De Dominicis

Fr. Herman Francis Flynn

Fr. Augustus “Gus” Griffin

Fr. Stanislaus J. Grondziowski

Named publicly as accused by the Diocese of Harrisburg on its list in 4/20. Died 8/21/94. Per his obituary, Grondziowski was assigned to Our Mother of Consolation in Mount Carmel 1941-55, and again 1966 until he retired in 1989. Also reportedly assigned 1955-66 to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Pittsburg. Noted to have been "involved in Scouting and youth work."
Fr. Peter Kiarie

Fr. William J. Malone

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Fr. James Andrew Marron

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Fr. Naos McCool

From Ireland. Spent time in New Orleans and Pittsburgh over the years. Assisted in the 1970s in the summers at Our Lady of Guadalupe and International Shrine of St. Jude in New Orleans, and as a New Orleans police chaplain. Returned often to preside at weddings through 2011. Assistant dean for students of the Duquesne University school of education in Pittsburgh 2001-2015. Chaplain for Vincentian Academy (High School) near Pittsburgh. Accused, along with three other men, of repeatedly sexually abusing a boy at an Irish Boarding school in the 1970s. Allegedly began abusing the boy, then age 14, who had come to him to report abuse by the others. McCool was the school's dean of studies. He reportedly would beat the boy with a wooden stick then sexually assault him. McCool's accuser received a settlement from the Spiritans in Ireland after coming forward in 2018. In 10/2023 McCool was living as a nursing home resident in Ireland.
Fr. Joseph McHugh

Fr. Anthony McKay

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Fr. Vincent A. O’Connell

Fr. Charles P. O’Donoghue

Fr. Louis G. Perreault

Fr. Francis M. Philben

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Fr. Gerard T. Ryan

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Fr. Joseph Sheehan
Fr. “Donn” Shelly
Fr. Edward M. Smith

Fr. Robert E. Spangenberg

Worked in PA, MI, NC, IL, FL. First named publicly as accused in the 8/14/2018 PA Grand Jury Report. Retired in 2003. Died 12/23/2006. Allegations of abuse of at least two minors in Pittsburgh. The diocese was contacted in 1988 by a woman who said her son had been abused by Spangenberg. The Spiritans moved Spangenberg to FL in 1989 due to the allegations. Kept in ministry. In 2009 a man reported that when he was a 15- to 16-year-old runaway and involved in prostitution, he had many "sexual encounters" with Spangenberg. He said the priest paid him to bring him other "young hustlers" for sex. He said Spangenberg liked to sniff glue whiIe orally copulating the boy, and that he was a "really sick guy - he would have person urinate and defecate on him." Included on the Raleigh diocese's list in 10/2018. On the Charlotte diocese's list 12/29/2019. Name included in 10/2022 on the Chicago archdiocese's list of credibly accused. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.
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Fr. Freddy Washington

Assigned in the Archdioceses of Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York. Prior to ordination, worked as a deacon in Tanzania. Pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Harlem in the NY archdiocese when arrested in 6/2017 for sexual abuse in 1982-1984 of two boys, ages 10 and 11-14, at St. Patrick's church in Charleston. Washington was a lay person and volunteer in his early 20s at the time of the alleged abuse. The boys were in training to be altar servers. The abuse was said to have included fondling and oral copulation. The Charleston diocese learned of the allegations in 2/2016 and contacted the Rockville Centre diocese. The Charleston diocese contacted Charleston police in 9/2016. The criminal case was dismissed in 2018. Listed on Xavier University in New Orleans' website in 6/2017 as associate professor of pastoral theology. Included in 10/2022 on the Chicago Archdiocese's list of credibly accused; had been pastor of two Chicago parishes. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report. Washington's order, the Spiritans, contended in 2025 that the allegations were unsubstantiated. However, the order said that Washington was under constant monitoring and did not have unsupervised accessed to minors. He was living at a Spiritans retirement home in Bethel Park, PA.