Database of Publicly Accused
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Br. Berthold Ascher
Fr. Joseph A. Balfe
Fr. James P. Barry
Fr. Anthony M. Brown
Monsignor. Priest of the Diocese of Helena. Superintendent of Helena diocesan Schools; President of Carroll College in Helena; Vice President of St. Thomas College in St. Paul, MN for one year; President of the College of Great Falls; mental health counselor at St. James Hospital in Butte. Named publicly as accused by the Great Falls-Billings diocese on its list 8/21/2018. Died in 2010, age 90.
Fr. John Joseph Brown
Fr. Rudolph Bullman
- The Montana Catholic 01.16.04
- The Missoulian 03.20.12
- Daily Inter Lake 03.20.12
- Coshocton Tribune 03.21.12
- Lez Get Real 03.21.12
- KAJ 03.22.12
- NBC Montana 03.22.12
- KAJ 03.29.12
- Daily Inter Lake 04.19.12
- NBC Montana 04.20.12
- Flathead Beacon 04.21.12
- Daily Inter Lake 01.07.13
- San Francisco Chronicle 01.08.13
- SNAP Statement 01.08.13
- Diocese of Helena 06.05.25
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Fr. Martin J. Burke
Fr. Harry Butori
Fr. William M. Cawley
Fr. Kevin L. Christofferson
Ordained for the Diocese of Great Falls. Working in the Diocese of Helena by 2000, in Butte parishes. In 10/2022 the Helena diocese announced that it had received an allegation that Christofferson sexually abused a minor in 2001. Placed on leave. On 5/8/2023 Bishop Vetter announced that the allegation could not be substantiated and Christofferson was to be reinstated.
Fr. Arnold L. Custer
Fr. John A. Delane
Fr. Harry Delaney
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Fr. Augustine M. Dimier
Fr. Dennis Druggan
- Fond du Lac Reporter 07.16.12
- Billings Gazette 07.16.12
- SNAP Wisconsin 07.16.12
- NBC 26 07.16.12
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 07.16.12
- FOX 11 07.16.12
- SNAP Wisconsin Statement 07.16.12
- SNAP Statement 12.06.12
- Sheboygan Press 02.18.13
- NBC 15 02.18.13
- SNAP Wisconsin 02.19.13
- Diocese of Great Falls-Billings List 08.21.18
- Associated Press 07.29.19
- Capuchins St. Joseph Province List 08.19.21
- IL Attorney General’s Report 05.23.23
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Fr. Ignatius J. Dumbeck
Fr. O’Reilly
Diocese: Diocese of Great Falls-Billings MT
Fr. George Ferguson
Fr. Joseph Finnegan
Br. Rene Gallant
- PCVA Press Release 03.25.11
- Indian Country Today Media Network 08.18.11
- The Missoulian 09.27.11
- John Does 1-16 et al v Ursuline Sisters, Diocese of Helena, et al, Cause No ADV-2011-936, Montana First Judicial District Court, Lewis & Clark County, 10.03.11
- Press Release from Kosnoff Fasy 01.31.14
- Missoula Independent 03.27.14
- Diocese of Helena List 04.29.15
- Diocese of Great Falls-Billings List 08.21.18
- Jesuits West Province List 12.07.18
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Fr. Louis J. Geis
Fr. A. M. D. Gillen
Br. James Anthony Gleason
Fr. Charles Gorman
Fr. John Haligowski
Fr. Daniel B. Harrington
Fr. Bernard A. Harris
- Statesman Journal (Salem OR) 01.12.06
- Oregonian 01.12.06
- Table: The Oregonian 11.12.06
- Missoulian 09.03.09
- Missoulian 09.14.09
- Missoulian 09.26.09
- Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit 11.12.09
- Missoulian 01.07.10
- PCVA Law Firm Press Release 03.25.11
- KXLH 09.21.11
- NBC Montana 09.22.11
- The Missoulian 09.27.11
- John Does 1-16 et al v Ursuline Sisters, Diocese of Helena, et al, Cause No ADV-2011-936, Montana First Judicial District Court, Lewis & Clark County, 10.03.11
- Press Release from Kosnoff Fasy 01.31.14
- Archdiocese of Seattle list 01.15.16
- The Stranger 01.15.16
- Jesuits West Province List 12.07.18
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Fr. Robert J. Hartman
Fr. Joseph S. Heretick
- Eastern Montana Catholic Register 06.08.47
- Eastern Montana Catholic Register 08.13.54
- Great Falls Tribune Obituary 01.17.99
- Market Watch 02.08.12
- KRTV 02.08.12
- Great Falls Tribune 02.08.12
- Great Falls Tribune 02.09.12
- Great Falls Tribune 02.12.18
- Associated Press 02.13.18
- Findagrave accessed 02.19.18
- KTVQ 04.27.18
- Great Falls Tribune 04.27.18
- Tamaki Law Offices 04.27.18
- Diocese of Great Falls-Billings List 08.21.19
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Sr. Sigfrieda Hettinger
Fr. Daniel B. Hillen
Fr. Emmett Hoffmann
- Billings Gazette 05.21.04
- Complaint in Jane Doe 1 v Order of Friars Minor Chapuchin, et al Montana 8th Judicial District Court, Cascade Co, 12.30.11
- Missoulian 12.30.11
- The Republic 12.31.11
- KTVQ 12.31.11
- KXLH 01.01.12
- Great Falls Tribune 01.02.12
- KFBB 01.02.12
- KULR 01.03.12
- KFBB 01.05.12
- Indian Country Today Media Network 01.23.12
- KPAX 06.07.12
- Indian Country Today Media Network 07.30.12
- Great Falls Tribune 08.16.17
- Assoicated PRess 12.21.17
- Diocese of Great Falls-Billings List 08.21.18
- Capuchin Friars St. Joseph Province List 08.19.21
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Fr. William A. Hogan
Fr. Leo F. Janson
Maria Rufina Karges
Died: 06/23/1977
Diocese: Diocese of Helena MT
- Flathead Courier 09.19.40
- Ronan Pioneer 04.03.41
- Ronan Pioneer 08.17.72
- Great Falls Tribune Obituary 06.25.77
- PCVA Law Firm Press Release 03.25.11
- The Missoulian 06.05.11
- The Missoulian 06.06.11
- The Missoulian 09.27.11
- John Does 1-16 et al v Ursuline Sisters, Diocese of Helena, et al, Cause No ADV-2011-936, Montana First Judicial District Court, Lewis & Clark County, 10.03.11
- The Missoulian 01.31.14
- Missoula Independent 03.27.14
- Diocese of Helena List 04.29.15
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Fr. John Patrick Kendrigan
Fr. John P. Kerrigan
Fr. Paul B. Kirchen
Fr. Leonard A. Kohlman
Sr. Giswalda Kramer
Died: 11/27/1988
Diocese: Diocese of Great Falls-Billings MT
- Great Falls Tribune 06.05.49
- Kramer MEd Thesis 08.15.55
- Great Falls Tribune 01.07.68
- Havre Daily News 02.28.73
- Havre Daily News 03.09.73
- Great Falls Tribune 01.28.74
- Great Falls Tribune 06.14.81
- Havre Daily News 03.23.83
- Great Falls Tribune 07.31.88
- Great Falls Tribune Obituary 12.21.88
- Diocese of Great Falls-Billings List 08.21.18
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Fr. Lothar Konrad Krauth
Mother Finbarr Kreiner
Fr. Harvey D. Livix
Named publicly as accused by the Diocese on its list 8/21/2018. Was College of Great Falls assistant to the president 1966-1969. Left to pursue his doctorate in higher education and gerontology at Michigan State. Left the priesthood. Married in 1970, settled with his wife in Arizona. Died 9/26/2007.
Fr. Emmett F. Lowney
Fr. Kevin J. Malee
Fr. Egon Mallman
Mother Mary Grace
Entered the Ursuline order in 1929. In charge of the girls at Villa Ursula in St. Ignatius. Died in 1950. Named publicly as accused by the Helena diocese on its list 4/29/2015. Assigned at some point between 1940 and 1975 to St. Ignatius Mission.
Fr. Bernard J. McCarthy
Fr. James W. McCormick
Fr. Thomas McTague
Fr. Joseph Mikulich
Br. Clarence Moreau
Fr. Kirk C. Morgan
Accused in two separate lawsuits in early 1999 of sexually abusing teenage boys. One plaintiff reportedly had developmental disabilities. Both claimed the abuse started in 1996. At least one of the suits settled out of court in 2000. Included on the Diocese's list of accused by the Diocese on its list 8/21/2018. Died 10/6/2024.
Mother Camilla
- Great Falls Tribune 09.11.1921
- Daily Missoulian 09.22.58
- Montana Catholic Register 09.18.63
- The Missoulian 09.27.11
- John Does 1-16 et al v Ursuline Sisters, Diocese of Helena, et al, Cause No ADV-2011-936, Montana First Judicial District Court, Lewis & Clark County 10.03.11
- Diocese of Helena List 04.29.15
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Mother Catherine
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Mother Henrietta
Fr. Emmett Neville
Fr. Robert J. O’Donnell
Fr. Joseph L. Obersinner
Fr. Dusan Anthony Okorn
Fr. Joseph T. Papes
Fr. Martin H. Philipsen
Accused of the sexual abuse of at least one minor. Included on the Helena diocese's list, posted to its website 4/29/2015 in compliance with the non-monetary terms of the 3/5/2015 bankruptcy settlement. Assigned to St. William's in Shelby MT 1971-1978. Other assignments included Southeast Catholic High School in the Green Bay archdiocese 1939-1943 and 1948-1958, Green Bay's Central Catholic 1943-1948 and counselor at Camp Tivoli 1939-1941. Also worked at Abbot Pennings High in De Pere, WI 1967-1969. Transferred in 1992 to his order's priory in Jackson, MI. Philpsen died 8/21/1998. Included on the St. Norbert Abbey in WI list 7/19/2019, with multiple allegations noted.
Fr. Peter P. Pritzl
Fr. Carl Pulvermacher
Ordained: 1952
Status: Accused
Died: 05/29/2006
Diocese: Diocese of Great Falls-Billings MT
Fr. James J. Reilly
Named publicly as accused by the Great Falls-Billings diocese on its list 8/21/2018. Included on the Fargo diocese's list 1/2/2020. Allegations substantiated. Died in 1990. Per his obituary, Reilly went to Via Caeli [sic]monastery in NM 1955-1968; Via Coeli was a Servants of the Paraclete treatment facility for troubled priests, including alcoholics and pedophiles. Reilly was assigned to parishes in the Dioceses of Bismarck and Billings-Great Falls.
Sr. Mary Laurence Reuter
Fr. James Reynolds
Fr. Edmund J. Robinson
- NW Jesuits 2005
- Great Falls Tribune 02.08.12
- KRTV 02.08.12
- Market Watch 02.08.12
- Great Falls Tribune 02.09.12
- KPAX 06.07.12
- Press Release from Kosnoff Fasy 01.31.14
- Missoula Independent 03.27.14
- Diocese of Helena List 04.29.15
- Great Falls Tribune 08.15.17
- Great Falls Tribune 08.16.17
- Diocese of Great Falls-Billings List 08.21.18
- Jesuits West Province List 12.07.18
- Washington Post 05.29.24
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Br. John I. Ryan
Sr. Mary Barbara Sabel
Fr. Patrick F. Savage
Mother Clement Marie Schmieder
Mother Cecilia Seymour
- Press Democrat Obituary 03.19.03
- Char-Koosta News Obituary 03.20.03
- The Missoulian 09.27.11
- John Does 1-16 et al v Ursuline Sisters, Diocese of Helena, et al, Cause No ADV-2011-936, Montana First Judicial District Court, Lewis & Clark County, 10.03.11
- Missoulian 01.31.14
- Diocese of Helena List 04.29.19
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Fr. Frederick Simoneau
Sister Benno
Sister Catherine
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Sister Charissma
Sister Christine
Sister Daniels
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Sister Frances
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Sister Glenniatoss
Diocese: Diocese of Helena MT
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Sister John
Sr. Mackey
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Sister Margaret
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Sister Marion
Sister Martin
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Sr. Mary
Sr. Mary Agnes Rose
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Sr. Mary Victor
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Sr. Monica
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Sr. Monica
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Sister Regina
Sr. Richildus
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Sr. Rita
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Sr. Teresa
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Sister Vonnie
Diocese: Diocese of Great Falls-Billings MT
Fr. Wilson F. Smart
The Diocese knew of Smart's attraction to boys by 1959. He received treatment in 1959 and 1969 and admitted to molesting more than 30 boys 1957-1978. A 1990 civil lawsuit alleged Smart sexually abused the plaintiff at age 12 in 1967, and that the abuse continued until 1975. It settled in 1993, possibly for $1.7M. Smart was named in at least three other suits which later settled. In 1993 the bishop admitted to removing two letters from a file which documented abuse. Smart was named as an abuser in an amended lawsuit in 10/2011. He died 9/10/2006. Included on the Helena diocese's list posted to its website 4/29/2015 in compliance with the non-monetary terms of the 3/5/2015 bankruptcy settlement.
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Br. John Sorisio
A woman alleged sexual abuse as a child by Br. "Seoriso" on multiple occasions at St. Ignatius Mission on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Allegations are included in a 9/2011 civil suit against Ursuline Order and Helena Diocese filed by 45 people against multiple nuns, 6 priests and 2 brothers. Br. "John Sorisio" was named as accused by the Helena diocese on its list 4/29/2015. Worked at St. Ignatius Mission 1915 until his death 7/20/1957. Included on the Jesuits West Province list 12/7/2018.
Fr. Leonard J. Spraycar
Fr. Patrick N. Stimatz
Fr. Sullivan
Diocese: Diocese of Helena MT
Fr. Theodore F. Szudera
Fr. Louis J. Taelman
Mother Bernadette Walters
Fr. Andrew J. Zarek
