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Sample Page from the Official
Catholic Directory:
Administrative and Parish Information with
Links to the Documents
The sample page below, reproduced
from the 1960 Official Catholic Directory, shows where information
about administrative assignments may be found:
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Managers - The priests listed in our
diocesan managers
table are drawn from the administrative section of the Directory,
highlighted in yellow below. In this year, one of these is Rev. Francis
E. Bass, Diocesan Director of Vocations. Bass was appointed to this
position by Bishop Ralph Hayes on 10/2/58, less than a month after
Hayes read an obscene
letter from Janssen to a victim, in which Janssen familiarly mentioned
Bass. |
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Deans - The priests listed in our deans
table are drawn from the administrative section of the Directory,
where they are boxed in blue below. |
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Accused Priests - The
careers of accused priests, which are detailed on our assignments
page, are drawn from the parish assignment section of the Directory.
On the page below, the assignments of three accused priests are boxed
in red:
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Rev. Francis E. Bass is listed
as the assistant at St. Joseph's in Davenport, where the parish
school has 191 students. Bass's pastor at St. Joseph's, Rev.
Louis A. Rohret, is listed as a diocesan judge and director
of the Priests' Eucharistic League. While Bass was at St. Joseph's,
he allegedly abused a victim whose affidavit
about the abuse and his repeated attempts to report it is
corroborated by a 1992 letter
from Vicar General Morrissey to Bishop O'Keefe: "I
don't think we can deny this telephone call." Thomas had
reported the abuse when it happened in 1964, but unfortunately
he reported it to Janssen at St. Mary's. See the next entry. |
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Rev. James M. Janssen is listed
below as the assistant at St. Mary's, where his pastor was Rev.
James J. Hopkins. The parish school had 209 students. There
were many complaints about Janssen's abusive behavior at St.
Mary's, where he worked 1959-61: {1}
{2}
{3}
{4}
{5}
{6}
{7}
{8}
{9}.
After St. Mary's, Janssen worked nearly 30 more years at three
other parishes, where he allegedly abused many more boys. |
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Rev. Donald Redmond
is a Benedictine priest listed as an assistant at St. John's
in Burlington. He and two other Benedictines are accused of
abusing boys at St. John's and in Kansas, where their home monastery
is located. Redmond worked at St. John's 1958-61, 1965-67, and
1974-84 (as pastor). Bishop
O'Keefe stated in deposition that the Davenport diocese maintained
files on non-diocesan priests serving in parishes, and there
is circumstantial evidence that the diocese knew of the problem
at St. John's as early as 1981, though they didn't admit it
until 2002. |
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