Tag: Fr. Donald McGuire SJ

No sooner ordained, complaints about McGuire SJ

The most detailed account yet of Fr. Donald McGuire as molester and the Chicago Jesuit province as looking the other way — for decades.

The newly public documents date from the early 1960s, when a concerned Austrian priest, in imperfect English, first observed in a letter to Chicago Jesuits that Father McGuire, newly ordained and studying in Europe, had much relations with several boys. The reports extend into the last decade, when Father McGuire reportedly ignored admonitions to stop traveling with young assistants, molesting one as late as 2003, as law enforcement was closing in.
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McGuire, now 80, was convicted on several counts of sex abuse in state and federal courts in 2006 and 2008, and is serving a 25-year federal sentence.

McGuire loses again

Donald McGuire, ex-SJ, loses his [court] appeal:

CHICAGO (AP) A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Jesuit priest on charges he traveled abroad and across state lines to have sex with a teenager.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday rejected Donald McGuire’s argument that, while the sex occurred, sex wasn’t the purpose of the travel.

McGuire is serving a 25-year prison sentence. The 80-year-old has also been convicted in Wisconsin for indecent behavior with a child.

McGuire once commanded a worldwide following as a gifted preacher. And he frequently travelled to retreats.

In a 12-page opinion, Judge Richard Posner concedes statutes indicating sex must be a primary reason for the travel cause confusion. But he writes it’s enough to show McGuire planned trips specifically to improve his chances of having sex.