Rev. Robert Harrison, OFM.Ca./images/title>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="te./images/html; charset=windows-1252">  </head> <body> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3" class="header" height="50" valign="middle"><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/" class="header">BishopAccountability.or./images/a> <hr color="#000000"./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr><td colspan="3"> ./images/td./images/tr> <tr> <td width="7%"> ./images/td> <td> <table valign="top" border="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td><p><strong><font color="#CC0000" size="+2">Assignment Record–./images/font./images/strong> <strong><font color="#CC0000" size="+2">Rev. Robert Harrison, OFM.Ca./images/font./images/strong><br> <br> <strong>Summary of Cas./images/strong>: Robert Harrison was ordained a Capuchin priest of the St. Joseph Province in Detroit in 1964. He started his priesthood in his native Milwaukee as a parish assistant and teacher before going on to work as Director and Director of Social Services at a Wauwatosa home for adolescent boys. At some point he earned advanced degrees in Social Work and Law. Harrison appears to have left the Milwaukee archdiocese around 1977, living briefly in Bloomington, Indiana then relocating in 1978 to New York City. He reportedly worked as a civil attorney while living at a New York archdiocese-sponsored residence for young African-American men considering priesthood. The <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> shows several gaps in Harrison's assignment history. By 1983 he was an assistant priest at St. Charles Borromeo parish in Harlem, and by 1991 Harrison was a Cardinal Hayes High School faculty member and basketball coach./images/p> <p>In December 2014 Harrison was removed from Cardinal Hayes and suspended from public ministry after he admitted to having sexually abused ten minors during the 1970s and 1980s in Milwaukee, Manhattan and the Bronx. Harrison had been borrowing money from Hayes staff members and, when questioned about it, said he needed the money to pay a victim. Per the Capuchins, Harrison was sent to a "professional facility" and the abuse was reported to district attorneys in the jurisdictions in which it occurred.<br> ./images/p> <p><strong>Ordaine./images/strong>: 1964<br> ./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> <br><table border="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td><img src="./images/imag./images/Harrison_Robert_OFM.Cap.jpg" width="156" height="206" alt=./images/./images/td> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> <br> <table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellspacing="0" width="802"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top" width="9%"><strong>Star./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="6%"><strong>Sto./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="29%"><strong> Assignment./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="17%"><strong>To./images/Accusation./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="5%"><strong>Stat./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="7%"><strong>Position./images/strong./images/td> <td valign="top" width="27%"><strong>Note./images/strong./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td height="117" valign="top"><p>196./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archdiocese of Milwauke./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archbishop was William Edward Cousins (1958-1977)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Francis of Assisi Friar./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Milwauke./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">W./images/td> <td valign="top">Harrison may have <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Johnson_CapuchinPriest.htm" class="link">taugh./images/a> at the parish school./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>St. Francis of Assisi Friary was attached to <font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Francis of Assis./images/strong./images/font>parish. The parish had a school./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Messmer High Schoo./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Johnson_CapuchinPriest.htm" class="link">may have taught her./images/a./images/td> <td valign="top">1,214 student./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Benedict the Moo./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Milwauke./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">W./images/td> <td valign="top"><a href="#shorthand" class="link"./images/./images/a>,./images/./images/td> <td valign="top">St. Benedict's had a school with 248-230 students./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">196./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Francis of Assisi Friar./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Milwauke./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">W./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">St. Francis of Assisi Friary was attached to St. Francis of Assisi parish. The parish had a school./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Carmelite Home for Boy./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><p><strong>Wauwatos./images/strong./images/p> <p><strong>&bull./images/strong> Harrison <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2014_01_06_WABC_PriestWho.htm" class="link">admitte./images/a> in 2014 to having abused ten minors in Manhattan, the Bronx and in Milwaukee during the 1970s and 1980s./images/p./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">W./images/td> <td valign="top">Director 1971-1973; Director of Social Services 1973-197./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>This was a residential treatment center for adolescent boys. There were 36-40 boys during this time./images/p> <p>Harrison had a <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm" class="link">masters degree in social wor./images/a>, and a <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm" class="link">law degre./images/a>. It is unclear as to when he earned the degrees./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Harrison is indexed in the 1977 <em>Director./images/em> as at the Carmelite Home for Boys, but he is not listed as there in the Milwaukee pages./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>197./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archdiocese of Indianapoli./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archbishop was George Joseph Biskup (1970-1979)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>Bloomington./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">I./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Address given is 800 No. Smith Rd. Apt 6U, Bloomington, which is near Indiana University./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>197./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archdiocese of New Yor./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archbishop was Terence James Cooke (1968-1983)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>New Yor./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Address given is 548 W. 150 St. NY, NY ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">197./images/td> <td valign="top">198./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>New Yor./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top">Harrison was said to have been working for the city as a <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_09_RoadtoRecovery_%E2%80%9CiKnow.htm" class="link">civil attorne./images/a>./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>Address given is 321 E. 22nd St. Apt 4N New York N./images/p> <p>Harrison was said to have been <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_09_RoadtoRecovery_%E2%80%9CiKnow.htm" class="link">living during this tim./images/a> at the <font color="#CC0000"><strong>Pierre Toussaint Residenc./images/strong./images/font>, which was archdiocese-sponsored and for young African-American men considering the priesthood../images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>198./images/p> <p> ./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">198./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Harrison is indexed in the 1981 <em>Director./images/em> as at the Capuchin Frairy in Detroit MI, but he is not listed there in the Detroit pages, nor is there any indication as to his whereabouts./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>198./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Archdiocese of New Yor./images/font./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Cooke was succeeded as New York archbishop by John Joseph O'Connor (1984-2000)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">198./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>New Yor./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Address given is 548 W. 150 St. NY, NY ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">198./images/td> <td valign="top">199./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>St. Charles Borrome./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><p><strong>New York (Harlem./images/strong./images/p> <p><strong>&bull./images/strong> Harrison <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2014_01_06_WABC_PriestWho.htm" class="link">admitte./images/a> in 2014 to having abused ten minors in Manhattan, the Bronx and in Milwaukee during the 1970s and 1980s./images/p./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top"./images/4,./images/./images/td> <td valign="top">St. Charles Borromeo had a school with 504-491 students./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top">199./images/td> <td valign="top">199./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top"> ./images/td> <td valign="top">Harrison is not indexed in the 1991 <em>Director./images/em>, nor is he listed as at his previous or next assignments./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p>199./images/p> <p><font color="#FF00FF">Edward Michael Egan replaced O'Connor as New York archbishop (2000-2009), followed by Timothy Michael Dolan (2009-)./images/font./images/p./images/td> <td valign="top">201./images/td> <td valign="top"><font color="#CC0000"><strong>Cardinal Hayes High Schoo./images/strong./images/font./images/td> <td valign="top"><strong>New York (Bronx./images/strong./images/td> <td align="center" valign="top">N./images/td> <td valign="top">religion teacher; black history teacher; assistant principal; basketball coac./images/td> <td valign="top"><p>Cardinal Hayes High had 1,080-878 students, all male../images/p> <p>Although not reflected in the <em>Directorie./images/em>, Harrison was reported to have begun his work at Cardinal Hayes High in <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm" class="link">198./images/a>./images/p> <p>Harrison was <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_CapuchinProvinceofSt.Joseph_StatementRegarding.htm" class="link">removed from public ministry./images/a>in late December 2014 after he <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Ida_York_Longtime_Admits.htm" class="link">admitted to having sexually abused ten minor./images/a> during the 1970s and 1980s in Milwaukee and New York. He had been borrowing money from Hayes staff members; when asked why, he said he needed the money to pay off a victim. Per his Order, he was sent to a "<a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_CapuchinProvinceofSt.Joseph_StatementRegarding.htm" class="link">professional facilit./images/a>, and the abuse was <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_CapuchinProvinceofSt.Joseph_StatementRegarding.htm" class="link">reported to district attorneys office./images/a> in Manhattan and the Bronx in NY and Milwaukee WI./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> ./images/tbody> </table> <table valign="top" border="0" width="800"> <tbody><tr> <td><p><strong><a name="shorthand"./images/a>Priests in a Paris./images/strong>: We use the following convention to show a priest's place among the clergy of a parish:./images/2 means that he is the first priest listed in the <em>Official Catholic Directory./images/em>(usually the pastor) and that there is a total of two priests at the parish. The shorthand ./images/4 means that the priest is listed third on a four-priest roster. See our <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/ia-davenpo./images/hierarchy-ocd-sample.htm" class="link">sample page from the <em>Director./images/em./images/a>.<br><br> <strong>Source./images/strong>: <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> (Kenedy & Sons, 1965-2015).<br> <br> <strong>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm">Bronx School Ousts Priest After Admissions of Abus./images/a><strong>,./images/strong>By Sharon Otterman, New York Times, January 5, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"><br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_CapuchinProvinceofSt.Joseph_StatementRegarding.htm" class="link">Statement Regarding Fr. Robert Harrison, Ofm Ca./images/a>., Capuchin Province of St. Joseph, January 5, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"><br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Johnson_CapuchinPriest.htm" class="link">Capuchin Priest with Milwaukee Ties Removed for Sex Abu./images/a>e, By Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 5, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"><br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Katie_JRN_Wisconsin_York.htm" class="link">Wisconsin priest barred from New York job after admitting past sexual abus./images/a>, By Katie Crowther, JRN, January 5, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"><br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Ida_York_Longtime_Admits.htm" class="link">Longtime Bronx Catholic School Priest Admits Sexually Abusing Children: Official./images/a>, By Ida Seigal, NBC New York, January 5, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"> <br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2014_01_06_WABC_PriestWho.htm" class="link">Priest Who Taught at Cardinal Hayes Fired; Admitted to Abus./images/a>, Taking Money, WABC, January 6, 2014<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"> <br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_06_ManuelLogan_RespectedCatholic.htm" class="link">Respected Catholic Priest Admits to Molesting Boys for Two Decade./images/a>, By Ruth Manuel-Logan, News One, January 6, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"><br> ./images/a>•./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_06_Slattery_SupportGroup.htm" class="link">Support Group for Victims of Sexual Abuse Upset over Cardinal Hayes Handling of Pedophile Pries./images/a>, By Denis Slattery, New York Daily News, January 6, 2015<strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_05_Sharon_Times_Bronx_Admissions.htm"> <br> ./images/a> •./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_07_Patrick_Associates_HARRISON_SECRET.htm">Harrison's Secret World is Reveale./images/a>, By Patrick J. Wall, Jeff Anderson & Associates, January 7, 2015<strong><br> •./images/strong><a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/news20./images/01_./images/2015_01_09_RoadtoRecovery_%E2%80%9CiKnow.htm" class="link">“I Know (and Knew) Fr. Robert Harrison, Capuchin Franciscan&rdquo./images/a>, Road to Recovery, January 9, 2015<strong> <br> ./images/strong><br> <strong>Not./images/strong>: The <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> aims to report the whereabouts of Catholic priests in the United States on January 1 of the <em>Director./images/em>'s publication year. Our working assumption is that a priest listed in the <em>Director./images/em> for a given year was at the same assignment for part of the previous year as well. However, Kenedy and Sons will sometimes accept updates well into the year of publication. Diocesan clergy records are rarely available to correct this information. The <em>Director./images/em> is also sometimes misleading or wrong. We have tried to create an accurate assignment record, given the source materials and their limitations. Assignment records are a work in progress and we are always improving the records that we post. Please <a href="mailto:staff@bishop-accountability.org" class="link">email u./images/a> with new information and corrections.<br> <br> This assignment record collates Harrison's career history as it is represented in the <em>Official Catholic Director./images/em> with the allegations against him, as reported in the media. We make no representation regarding the truth of the allegations we report, and we remind our readers that the U.S. legal system presumes that a person accused of or charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty. Similarly, individuals who may be defendants in civil actions are presumed not to be liable for such claims unless a plaintiff proves otherwise. Admissions of guilt or liability are not typically a part of civil or private settlements. For more information, see our <a href="htt./images//www.bishop-accountability.o./images/db_overview.htm#posting" class="link">posting polic./images/a>.<br> <br> This assignment record was last updated on March 29, 2017./images/p./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> <p><strong><br> ./images/strong./images/p> ./images/td> <td width="7%"> ./images/td> ./images/tr> <tr><td colspan="3"> ./images/td./images/tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" class="sm"><hr color="#000000"> Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution../images/td> ./images/tr> <tr> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> <td> ./images/td> ./images/tr> </tbody./images/table> </body>