Fr. Michael Scanlan
Took the name Theophane Scanlan upon ordination. Longtime president of Franciscan University of Steubenville. Leader in the Charismatic Renewal movement. Died in 2017. Accused in a lawsuit filed in 2020 of sexually abusing a boy, age 9, in 1978. The abuse allegedly occurred at a People of Hope (Charismatic community) gathering at St. Antoninus Parish in Newark, NJ, and on multiple other occasions when Scanlan would visit the NJ parish. The boy and his mother and brothers were living in the parish rectory. Scanlan has also been accused of covering up for credibly accused priest Samuel Tiesi, T.O.R.
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