The Bishop & the Jesuit Abuser down the River in Baton Rouge

What They Knew
October 2, 2012

http://vu2103.katla.orangewebsite.com/the-bishop-the-jesuit-abuser-down-the-river-in-baton-rouge/

There is another Jesuit priest we know very well on this site who almost escaped to Louisiana back in the early 1980s, notorious child sex abuser Donald McGuire SJ. In an exchange of documents between then Chicago Provincial Leo Klein SJ and the Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Sullivan of Baton Rouge, a notorious abuser of children himself.

Bishop Joseph Sullivan knew he wanted Donald McGuire SJ closer to him

In the suit, a Houston man alleged that Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan abused him from 1978 to 1982, nearly two years of which he spent in the Corpus Christi Minor Seminary. The man, now 42, was a teenage students in the Baton Rouge minor seminary and transferred to Corpus Christi after schools closed in Baton Rouge and Lumberton. Sullivan remained bishop in Baton Rouge but would visit the boy at the Corpus Christi Minor Seminary, a high school for boys aspiring to the priesthood. A third accusation in 2005 named the diocese as a co-defendant with Sullivan in a civil lawsuit filed in Hawaii. It accused Sullivan of sexually abusing a minor during visits to Hawaii from 1969 to 1977.

Sullivan died in 1982.

But in 1981 Bishop Sullivan, a now named pedophile himself, sought to have Donald McGuire SJ transferred to Baton Rouge where he could work with students at Louisiana State University (LSU) or at a parish in Baton Rouge and help out at Mother Angelica’s fledgling EWTN TV. The exchange between the Chicago Province and the New Orleans Province and Bishop Sullivan is below. What is obvious from these letters, is that both the Chicago and New Orleans Provincials knew Donald McGuire SJ had serious enough problems that he would not be allowed to go to Louisiana.

Chicago Provincial J. Leo Klein SJ knew what Doanld McGuire’s problematic dimensions were

Klein stated that McGuire likewise was not allowed to have a “parish” assignment due to “problematic dimensions” and the New Orleans Jesuit Province did not want “the problem” in their region either.





Even given what Provincials J Leo Klein SJ of Chicago and Thomas Stahel SJ of the New Orleans Province knew regarding Donald McGuire SJ and his “problematic dimensions” they did nothing to stop him for over 20 years.

Donald McGuire SJ knew he could have had a home in the Big Easy Jesuits

As pointed to out in the previous story, NOLA Jesuits have a long history with “Italian Contractors” and with corruption. But we imagine that even “Italian Contractors” must find Jesuit behavior regarding child sexual abuse abhorrent. We imagine this is what the next Consultors’ meeting with the Provincial might look like. (Warning Strong Language, unless you are a Jesuit)

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,

And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.

And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.

Then I’m gonna sit right here until I die.

I met her accidentally in St. Paul (Minnesota).

And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, Southern drawl.

Then I heard my dream was back Downstream cavortin’ in Davenport,

And I followed you, Big River, when you called.

Then you took me to St. Louis later on (down the river).

A freighter said she’s been here but she’s gone, boy, she’s gone.

I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the block.

She raised a few eyebrows and then she went on down alone.

Now, won’t you batter down by Baton Rouge, River Queen, roll it on.

Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans.

Go on, I’ve had enough, dump my blues down in the gulf.

She loves you, Big River, more than me.

Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry, cry, cry

And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.

And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.

Then I’m gonna sit right here until I die.