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Assignment Record – Rev. Francis E. " Frank" Duffy, S.J.

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December 11, 2013

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Summary of Case: Ordained a Jesuit of the Oregon Province in 1943Duffy's ministry took him from California to Washington state, Montana and Oregon. He died in 1992. In the early 2000s, accusations began to surface against Duffy. He has been accused of sexually abusing at least five girls, ages 6 to 12, in the 1960s and '70s, and a "vulnerable adult" woman in the late 1980s. The abuses are said to have occurred while Duffy worked in Oregon and Washington state. He has been the subject of multiple lawsuits.





Ordained: 1943





Died: Dec. 1, 1992 



 





















 


 


 





















































































































































































































































































































































































































Start


Stop


Parish/Assignment


Town/Accusations


State/Country


Position


Notes


1943

San Francisco archbishop was John Joseph Mitty (1935-1961).



1944


Alma College


Alma


CA


x/x


 


1944

Spokane bishop was Charles Daniel White (1926-1955). 



1945


Gonzaga University


Spokane


WA


 


 


1945

Seattle bishop was Gerald Shaughnessy, S.M. (1933-1950).



1946


Manresa Hall


Port Townsend


WA


Tertianship


 


1946

Great Falls bishop was William Joseph Condon (1939-1967).



1948


St. Paul's Indian Mission


Hays


MT


1/2


St. Paul's had a day school with 159-166 students, and a religious vacation school with 27 students.


1946


1948


St. Thomas'


Lodge Pole


MT


 


This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. 





St. Thomas' had a religious vacation school with 61 students.


1946


1948


St. Joseph's


Zortnan


MT


 


This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays.

St. Joseph's had a religious vacation school with 12 students.



1946


1948


 


Landusky


MT


 


This was a station of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays.


1948





Thomas Arthur Connolly succeeded Shaughnessy (1950-1975). Seattle became an archdiocese in June 1951.



1954


Bellarmine High School


Tacoma


WA


 


Bellarmine had 376-325 students, all male.


1954


1955


Gonzaga University


Spokane


WA


 


 


1955

Portland archbishop was Edward Daniel Howard (1926-1966).



1958


Novitiate of St. Francis Xavier


Sheridan


OR


 


 


1958


1959


Jesuit Provincial Residence


Portland


OR


Jesuit Seminary Association Assistant Director


 


1959


1968


Jesuit High School


Portland

 Duffy was accused in a 2007 lawsuit of having sexually abused a 7 or 8-year-old Oregon girl in the mid-1960s, along with accused Rev.James Poole, s.j.The abuse is said to have occurred during the priests' visits to the girl's home.



OR


 


Jesuit High had 380-522 students.

 







Poole has been the subject of multiple allegations of sexual abuse of young girls.



1968


1970


St. Luke's


Woodburn

• Duffy was accused in separate 2002 lawsuits of having sexually abused two girls, ages 6 and 7, in 1967 and 1968. The girls were sisters, and the abuse is said to have occurred at Duffy's residence.



OR


1/3, 2/3


St. Luke's had a school with 282-234 students.


 


 


Mount Angel Abbey


St. Benedict


OR


 


Mt. Angel Abbeyis a Benedictine Monastery and Seminary School.

This assignmentis per news reports.



1968


1970


St. Agnes'


Hubbard


OR

 



 


St. Agnes' was a mission of St. Luke's in Woodburn.


1970

Yakima bishop was Cornelius Michael Power (1969-1974).



 


St. Joseph's


Yakima

• Duffy was accused in a 2010 lawsuit of molesting an 8-year- old female St. Joseph's student in 1977.

• Another woman emerged in 2013 with accusations that Jesuits Duffy, Poole, and John Morsesexually abused her when she was 8 to 12 years-old in the 1970s, and a St. Joseph's school student.



WA


5/5, 6/6, 4/4, 5/6, 8/9

The 1976-1978Directories indicate that Duffy was involved with the Spanish-speaking apostolate. 



St. Joseph's had a school with 194-350 students.

 

 

 







Morse has been the subject of multiple accusations of child sexual abuse, which he has denied.



1979


1989


St. Peter the Apostle Retreat Center


Cowiche

• A woman reported to the Yakima diocese in 2008 that she had been sexually abused by Duffy in the late 1980s, when she was a "vulnerable adult."



WA


2/3, 2/2


 


1989


1990


 


 


 


 


Duffy is not indexed in the 1990 Directory.


1990

Portland archbishop was William Joseph Levada (1986-1995).



1991


Jesuit High School


Portland


OR


In residence.


Jesuit High had 472 students.


1991

Spokane bishop was William Stephen Skylstad (1990-2010).



1992


Regis Community


Spokane


WA


 


 


1992


 


Gonzaga University


Spokane


WA


 


Duffy died Dec. 1, 1992.


 






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