Fr. James J. Tully

Order: CFX
Ordained: 1975
Status: Settled

Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA

Pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct in 1992 after giving three boys alcohol and grabbing one of them on the inner thigh during a baseball game in WI. Missionary for many years in Sierra Leone and Giunea. Sent to Rome just after a 4/02 letter to the Boston archdiocese accusing him of sexually molesting a parishioner at St. Brendan’s in Bellingham, MA in 1970. Accuser settled in 2005 for $75K. At Xaverian Missionary Fathers residence in Wayne NJ 11/08. Laicized 1/09. Omitted from 2011 Boston AD database.


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