Prominent Jesuit Is Target of New Federal Charges

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A prominent Jesuit priest accused of sexually victimizing teenage boys who were his valets as he traveled the world leading Roman Catholic spiritual retreats was taken into federal custody yesterday in Chicago.

The priest, the Rev. Donald J. McGuire, was charged by the federal authorities with traveling to Switzerland and Austria to engage in sexual conduct with a minor. Father McGuire was convicted last year of sexually abusing two high school students on trips to Wisconsin.

He was free on parole awaiting an appeal.

If convicted on the new federal charge, he could face up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Father McGuire, 77, has spent much of his career directing retreats for laypeople and members of Mother Teresa’s religious order. He entered Federal District Court in Chicago yesterday leaning on a walker and wearing a blue suit, without a priest’s collar.

An assistant United States attorney, Julie B. Ruder, called him a flight risk and a danger to the community. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys decided against releasing him on bond.
Disgusting. Those that enabled him should be in prison right next to him!!! Not to mention they committed obstruction of justice.
 
Priests have faced such charges who were proved innocent, so I will reserve judgement until I see what the result of this is. Most prominent among those who were exonerated of such chages were Cardinal Pell of Australia and Cardinal Bernadin of Chicago.
 
mdgspencer said:
Priests have faced such charges who were proved innocent, so I will reserve judgement until I see what the result of this is. Most prominent among those who were exonerated of such chages were Cardinal Pell of Australia and Cardinal Bernadin of Chicago.
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The actions continued despite orders from his Jesuit superiors in the Chicago Province in 1991 instructing Father McGuire not to travel on overnight trips “with any boy or girl under the age of 18 and, preferably, even under the age of 21.”
In 2001, Father McGuire was ordered not to travel or share a room with anyone younger than 30.
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He seems to have set himself up by violating those orders.
 
That a once proud Order in serious need of reform, especially the Nortamerican province. St Ignacio de Loyola and St Francisco Javier should turning on their graves.
 
Not all the provinces are that bad. I went to a Jesuit school and most of the priest were godly men and fairly Orthodox in teaching.
But in some areas the order need serious intervention by the Vatican. It has gone seriously astray,
 
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