Rev. James E. Mason-Assignment

Rev. James E. Mason

Ordained: 1967

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1967 Bishop of the La Crosse diocese was Frederick William Freking (1964-1983)	1969	Immaculate Conception	Eau Claire	WI	3/3 Pastor was Rev. Daniel J. O'Reilly. Other priests were Revs. Norman D. Boneck and then Charles E. Leisle.	Parish had a school with 340-390 students.
1969	1975	Newman Club, Wisconsin State University	Eau Claire • In 2000 a man reported having been sexually abused by Mason as a high school student working at WSU, and then as a University student in 1975. (Riverfront Times [St. Louis Missouri] August 25, 2004)	WI	Other priests included Revs. Robert H. McKillip, Edmund J. Klimek, adn Peter Taylor, who arrived in 1974.
1975	1981	McDonell Central High School	Chippewa Falls • Found guilty in 1981 of sexual assault of a student who had come to him for counseling. Placed on probation. (Riverfront Times [St. Louis Missouri] August 25, 2004)	WI	"Pastor"	School had 435-460 students. The 1976 Official Catholic Directory indexes Mason as still living at WSU in Eau Claire, but the diocesan pages of the Directory list him as in residence at McDonell Central High School.
1981 Freking was replaced by John Joseph Paul as La Crosse bishop (1983-1994)	1986	Roncalli Newman Community	La Crosse	WI	Mason worked with Rev. John A. Schultz in 1981. Rev. Richard Thomson, o.c.s.o. was in residence 1982-1984, and Mason is the sole priest there in 1985 and 1986.
1986 Milwaukee archbishop was Rembert George Weakland, O.S.B. (1977-2002)	1992	Absent on Sick Leave	Burlington	WI		The La Crosse diocesan pages of the 1990, 1991, and 1992 Directories give an address for Mason in Burlington, WI (Milwaukee archdiocese).
1992 Weakland was replaced as Milwaukee archbishop by Timothy Michael Dolan (2002-)	2004	On Duty Outside the Diocese	Burlington	WI		No longer listed in Directories after 2004. Per news reports, was counseling drug users in the Milwaukee archdiocese as of 2004. (Riverfront Times [St. Louis Missouri] August 25, 2004)

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1968-2004).

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