8 Accused in This Religious Order
- BA.org Assignment Record
- Partial Boston Assignment Record
- Societas Apostolatus Catholici May 2007
- First Amended Complaint 10.21.02
- Boston Globe 01.30.03
- Boston Globe 01.31.03
- Dallas Morning News 09.12.04
- Dallas Morning News 09.12.04
- BIshopAccountability Boston List 02.02.07
- RichardSipecom 04.17.07
- Boston Globe 11.20.11
- SNAP Statement 03.11.13
- BA.org Assignment Record
- Milwaukee Catholic Herald 09.23.04
- Baltimore Sun 11.19.07
- WJZ 11.19.07
- Baltimore Sun 11.20.07
- The Examiner 11.20.07
- WJZ 11.25.07
- ABC 2 11.27.07
- Baltimore Sun 12.03.07
- WJZ 02.26.08
- Baltimore Sun 02.27.08
- Letter from Pallotine Order to Parish 12.28.08
- WBAL 12.30.08
- Catholic Review 12.30.08
- Baltimore Sun 12.30.08
- ABC 2 12.30.08
- Examiner 12.31.08
- Archdiocese of Baltimore List 09.05.19
Fr. Carl Bartholomew
Ordained at age 53. Assigned at some point to St. Martha's in Sarasota. Accused in 4/02 by a woman of molesting her 16-year-old son in 1994 when Bartholomew was a chiropractor in Bradenton, FL, prior to ordination. Bartholomew was not assigned to the Venice diocese in 4/02 and was reportedly in England. In 10/02 a committee of lay persons investigated and cleared Bartholomew. The priest acknowledged genital contact with the boy, but said it was part of a medical procedure. One committee member, a psychologist, had once examined another teenage boy who had alleged that Bartholomew made sexual advances toward him in 1998. Bartholomew was returned to full active status.
Fr. Barry F. Bossa
Pled guilty in 1974 to charge of misdemeanor sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy. No jail time. Order knew but allowed ordination. Two victims filed suit in Boston in 2002. They alleged he performed oral sex on them as 8- and 10-year-olds in Bridgewater in the 1970s when he was a "parish brother." Was working in the in NY archdiocese in 2002. Transferred to Rome after NY archdiocese pulled his privileges. MA charges filed and attempts made to extradite him. Died in 5/07. Omitted from 2011 Boston AD database.
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Fr. Douglas Carroll
Removed in 1990 after Order told Diocese that he had admitted soliciting an underage individual in another state. Laicized in 1998. Included on the Baltimore archdiocese's list of accused religious priests and brothers.
Fr. Theodore Kocian
Named publicly as accused on the Buffalo diocese's list updated 11/5/18. Kocian died in 1987.
Fr. William E. Lemanski
Lemanski had lived under supervision at a rectory close to a school for 11 years after admitting he abused a minor (possibly in 1990). In 3/02, Fr. Robert Carney, a former Provincial, wrote a letter apologizing to the victim and said that Lemanski had received therapy and was not assigned to any priestly ministry except saying mass for nuns at a convent. In 9/04, SNAP asked the Order to move him.
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Fr. Anthony Lorento
In 1994 an individual alleged to the archdiocese that Lorento had abused him. Archdiocese told the Pallotines. Lorento does not appear in the 2002 Official Catholic Directory. In the 1993 Directory, he is shown working in New York. Name appeared on 9/02 Archdiocese of Baltimore list of religious priests and brothers who had been accused of child sexual abuse.
Fr. Aiden Maguire
Ordained in Ireland. Named publicly as accused by the Amarillo diocese on its list 1/31/19. Worked in the diocese 1/61-12/65 and 10/69-8/81. Returned to Ireland in 1981.
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Fr. Michael Salerno
Placed on leave in 11/07 by the Baltimore archdiocese after accusation surfaced that he had abused a teenage boy in Brooklyn in 1970s. At the time of the alleged abuse, Salerno was a lay member (brother) of the Pallotine order. Salerno neither admitted or denied the accusation at the time. Order announced in 12/08 that Salerno had since admitted that he molested a 13-year-old boy in the late 1970s. Privileges permanently removed. On the Baltimore archdiocese's list 9/5/19.