Fr. John J. O’Brien
Formerly a Christian Brother, ” Bro. Firmilian John.” Ordained to the priesthood in 1975. The Pittsburgh diocese announced in 2/2019 that it had received an allegation that O’Brien abused a boy when he taught at Central Catholic High in the mid-1960s. He died in 2004. Name included on the diocese’s list of accused.
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