Chi Trib’s Manya Brachear has more on the Rev. Donald McGuire S.J. suit filed today, with chilling details from the suit and in a news conference:

The parents of the plaintiffs in the latest suit met the priest in 1983 on a spiritual pilgrimage to shrines in Europe. In Lourdes, France, McGuire inspired the mother to convert to Catholicism and asked the father to organize spiritual retreats in Arizona, the plaintiffs’ father said during a news conference Tuesday.

McGuire allegedly abused the older brother, John Doe 117, inside the confessional during those retreats. McGuire later baptized the younger brother, named in the suit as John Doe 118, and presided over the marriage ceremony of John Doe 117. He allegedly abused John Doe 118 at a fundraiser thrown by the family the same weekend as his older brother’s wedding.

The Jesuits apparently had a monster on their hands.

Two more accusers of Father Donald McGuire the Jesuit convicted of sexual abuse, from two brothers in Arizona who today will file suit in Cook County, reports WBBM’s Bernie Tafoya. According to Barbara Blaine of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP),

the young men’s father made a comment about how he thought Fr. McGuire, a family friend, was not guilty of allegations that had been made against him elsewhere, and the oldest told his dad, “I wouldn’t be too sure about that.” That led to questions from the dad; and the 28-year old, a decorated former Marine, admitted he had been molested by Fr. McGuire starting when he was eight or nine years old.

The father later asked his 19-year old son and the son, too, admitted he had been abused by the priest.

This is awful.

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