Fr. Michael L. Pfleger
Pastor of St. Sabina’s on Chicago’s south side from 1981. Prominent anti-violence and social justice advocate. Suspended in 1/2021, accused of abusing a boy 40 years prior. The accuser’s brother soon also said the priest abused him as a boy. The brothers said the abuse occurred for years, starting when they were ages 12 and 13 in the 1970s and Pfleger was a seminarian and their choir director at Precious Blood parish. In 3/2021 a third man said Pfleger made an unwanted sexual advance toward him when the man was 18 in 1979. Pfleger “strongly denied” all accusations. Pfleger wrote to the Auburn Gresham community that he would “seek other ways…to minister” to them. In 3/2021 a fourth person reportedly may have come forward. Reinstated after the Review Board said in 5/2021 there was “insufficient reason to suspect…. Pfleger is guilty… .” Again suspended in 10/2022 due to a new allegations of abuse of a boy in the late 1980s. Pfleger denied the accusation. Reinstated in 12/2022 after the Review Board “found no reason to suspect” Pfleger was guilty.
- Archdiocese of Chicago Statement 01.05.21
- Chicago Sun Times 01.05.21
- National Catholic Reporter 01.05.21
- Chicago Tribune 01.06.21
- Chicago Tribune 01.09.21
- Chicago Sun-Times 01.24.21
- WGN 01.24.21
- Catholic News Agency 01.25.21
- Chicago Sun Times 01.25.21
- Chicago Sun-Times 01.26.21
- Chicago Tribune 01.26.21
- Religious News Service via Crux 01.28.21
- Catholic News Agency 02.25.21
- Block Club Chicago 02.26.21
- WBBM 02.26.21
- Chicago Sun-Times 02.28.21
- Block Club Chicago 03.01.21
- Chicago Tribune 03.01.21
- Catholic News Agency 03.01.21
- Chicago Tribune 03.01.21
- Chicago Sun-Times 03.01.21
- Associated Press 03.03.21
- Associated Press 03.15.21
- Chicago Tribune 03.23.21
- NBC Chicago 03.30.21
- The Patch 03.31.21
- WLS-AM 03.31.21
- WFLD 04.03.21
- Chicago Sun-Times 04.22.21
- National Catholic Reporter 04.23.21
- WGN 05.24.21
- WLS 05.24.21
- WMAQ 05.24.21
- WTTW 05.24.21
- Archdiocese of Chicago 05.24.21
- Associated Press 05.24.21
- SNAP 05.24.21
- WBBM 05.24.21
- WGN 05.24.21
- Chicago Sun-Times 05.24.21
- Chicago Tribune 05.24.21
- Religion News Service MO School of Journalism 05.24.21
- Vice 05.28.21
- Associated Press 06.06.21
- Chicago Tribune 06.06.21
- WMAQ 06.07.21
- Associated Press 10.15.22
- ABC7 Chicago 10.15.22
- Chicago Sun-Times 10.15.22
- Archbishop Cupich Statement 10.15.22
- Pfleger Statement 10.15.22
- WLS 10.16.22
- Chicago Sun-Times 10.16.22
- Religion News Service – Missouri School of Journalism 10.17.22
- Catholic News Agency 10.18.22
- Catholic News Service0 USCCB 10.18.22
- WLS 11.17.22
- WFLD 12.10.22
- WLS 12.10.22
- Religion News Service 12.10.22
- Archdiocese of Chicago Statement 12.10.22
- Chicago Sun-Times 12.10.22
- Associated Press 12.11.22
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