1962

Boston archbishop was Richard James Cushing (1944-1970).

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Responsible for all youth programs. Taught religious ed. to freshman boys. Directed 80 elementary and 50 high school altar boys. Started a CYO with 300 high schoolers. Conducted Days of Recollection in several Catholic high schools, including Ursuline Academy and Jean D'Arc. (Rosenkranz resume from archdiocesan personnel file)

Marblehead

• Rosenkranz was accused in a 2002 lawsuit of molesting an altar boy in the late 1960s at this parish and in a New Hampshire hotel where he had taken the boy overnight. The former altar boy also said that a monsignor had seen him as a boy with Rosenkranz and did nothing. The accuser confronted Rosenkranz and the diocese in 1987 with his claims. (Boston Herald, March 11, 2002) He wrote a letter to Cardinal Law, and another to Rosenkranz. Rev. John McCormack, head of the archdiocese's ministerial personnel at the time, is said to have dismissed the man's complaints when approached in 1987. (Associated Press
April 13, 2002)

• There was at least one more allegation of sexual abuse and rape of a child at this parish. (Pattern and Practice brief)

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Responsible for all youth programs, including altar boys, scouts, and C.Y.O. Organized and supervised a guidance dept. for junior high students. Personally counseled 100 students.

Parish had a school with 359-209 boys and 327-251 girls.

Per Rosenkranz' resume, he received a graduate degree in education in 1968, and in 1969 studied "Guidance and Counseling with particular emphasis on adolescent development". The objective of his resume was guidance of youth.

Archdiocesan authorities may have known about Rosenkranz' sexual abuse of children as early as 1970, and was transferred out of this parish as a result. (Patterns and Practice brief)

1970

Cushing was succeeded by Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1970-1983).

Parish had a school with 198 boys and 204 girls.

1972

Replacing Medeiros was Bernard Francis Law (1984-2002).

Saugus

• Rosenkranz was accused in a 2002 lawsuit of sexually abusing an altar boy in the 1970s at this parish. His account of abuse matched that of an accuser form Our Lady Start of the Sea in Marblehead, although the accusers did not know one another. He, too, said he was abused at the parish and in New Hampshire, and that a monsignor was aware and did nothing. (Boston Herald
March 11, 2002)

• Rosenkranz was arrested in 1981 for performing a lewd act on a man in a Sear's men's restroom. He contacted a "friendly" judge, and the charges were dropped. (Boston (MA) Globe
September 13, 2002) Bishop Daily handled the case for the archdiocese, supporting Rosenkranz and keeping the incident quiet. (July 1981 memo from Rosenkranz' personnel file)

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In residence.

Salem

• Rosenkranz was arrested in October 1989 for "lewd conversation and indecent assault" on an undercover police officer at a highway rest stop. (Boston Globe
September 13, 2002)

This was a mission of St. Joseph's.

Rosenkranz was put on sick leave in December 1989.

A retired priest who knew Rosenkranz, having lived with him for three years, wrote to Bishop Banks in 1990 that he thought Rosenkranz "should not be reassigned to a parish," and that he had to leave our Lady Start of the Sea "for the same reason" he was leaving St. Joseph's. (Boston archdiocesan documents)

Rosenkranz is not indexed beyond the 2002 Directory.

He was defrocked in 2006 as announced in February 2007. (Salem News [Massachusetts]
February 24, 2007)