Resurrectionists / Congregation of the Resurrection

11 Accused in This Religious Order

Fr. Stephen A. Juda

Order: CR
Ordained: 1942
Status: Accused

Died: 10/10/2006
Diocese: Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau MO

Named publicly as accused by the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese on its list updated 4/1/2019. It notes an incident in 1972, reported in 2004. Included on the Resurrectionists' list in 10/2021. Included in 10/2022 on the Chicago archdiocese's list of credibly accused. Named in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report. Juda died in 2006, age 91.

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Fr. Timothy F. Keppel

Order: CR
Ordained: 1977
Status: Accused

Diocese: Diocese of San Bernardino CA

On 1/12/2013, the Order announced that Keppel had been removed after it had received (in summer 2012) an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a teenage boy in the San Bernardino Diocese in the late 1970s. The boy was not a member of either Our Lady of the Lake or St. Anne's in the Mountains where Keppel was assigned for many years. The Diocese investigated and both the Diocese and Order found reasonable cause to believe that the behavior did occur. Sentenced in 2012 by the Vatican to a life of prayer and penance. Included on the Diocese's list 10/9/2018. On the Mobile Archdiocese's list 12/6/2018, which notes "misconduct" occurring 1977-1981; it doesn't say where. Worked at some point at Resurrection parish in Montgomery. On the Stockton diocese's 11/12/2020 list, noting he was a visiting priest at Mammoth Lakes during Lent 2012. Included on the Resurrectionists' list of credibly accused 10/27/2021.

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Diocese of Stockton Revised List 11.12.20

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Fr. Adalbert J. Kowalczyk

Order: CR
Ordained: 1938
Status: Sued

Died: 07/10/1972
Diocese: Diocese of San Diego CA

Sued in 2002. Accused of abuse of at least one girl in a lawsuit first filed in 1993 and dismissed on statute of limitations. Worked in Chicago early in his priesthood. Died in 7/1972. Included on the San Diego diocese's list of credibly accused 3/30/2007. Personnel file released 10/25/2010. Included on the Resurrectionists' list in 10/2021. Included on the Chicago archdiocese's list in 10/2022. Named in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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BA.org Assignment Record

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Fr. Lawrence Kuntz

Order: CR
Ordained: 1914
Status: Accused

Died: 07/14/1952
Diocese: Archdiocese of Louisville KY

From Ontario, Canada. Per his obituary, after ordination Kuntz taught at St. Jerome's College in Ontario and St. Stanislaus College in Chicago. He was next assigned in Louisville KY, then returned to parishes and later St. Jerome's infirmary in Waterloo, Ontario. He died in 1952. Per news in 6/2004, a man said that he was molested at age 7 in 1928 by a "Father Lawrence" at St. Cecilia's in Louisville. The Archdiocese confirmed that a Fr. Lawrence Kuntz worked at the parish 1928-1935. This plaintiff did not file suit against the Archdiocese but is one of three plaintiffs in a class action suit filed against the Vatican. The suit does not include allegations against specific priests. The case against the Vatican was dropped in 8/2010.

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BA.org Assignment Record

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Fr. Lawrence Kurlandski

Order: CR
Ordained: 1942
Status: Sued

Died: 01/5/1990
Diocese: Diocese of San Diego CA

Accused by a woman in a 2003 lawsuit of molesting her at St. Joseph's in Fontana 1947-1949. Kurlandski died in 1990. Included on the Resurrectionists' list of credibly accused 10/27/2021. Named in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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Fr. Patrick Mackan

Order: CR
Ordained: 1958
Status: Sued

Died: 11/23/1990
Diocese: Archdiocese of Louisville KY

Accused in a 2002 suit of sexually abusing a 17-year-old Canadian girl after she had been raped and impregnated by another man. The abuse is alleged to have continued 1972-1975 and to have included oral sex and sexual intercourse. Some of the abuse occurred during trips to the U.S., where Mackan supervised other priests of his order in the Louisville archdiocese. His later career involved the education of children with special needs. Mackan died in 1990.

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Detailed BA.org Assignment Record

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Fr. Donald P. Marrokal

Order: CR
Ordained: 1958
Status: Accused

Died: 02/24/2007
Diocese: Diocese of Youngstown OH

First named publicly as accused on the Youngstown diocese's list 10/29/2018. Died in 2007.

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Fr. Theodore Meisner

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Order: CR
Ordained: 1957
Status: Sued

Diocese: Archdiocese of Louisville KY

Accused in a 7/2002 lawsuit of fondling a 13-year-old youth during a counseling session in 1981. Meisner had assignments in various other states and in Canada before leaving the priesthood in 1989. As of 2002 he was living in Georgia and working part-time for the state. Included on the Louisville archdiocese's list in 2/2019.

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Assignment Record Compiled by Law Firm

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Fr. Charles A. Mrowinski

Order: CR
Ordained: 1955
Status: Accused

Died: 09/27/2008
Diocese: Archdiocese of Chicago IL

Accused in 2013 of abuse occurring in 1984 in the Archdiocese of Chicago, where he was pastor 1982-1986 of St. Hedwig's. His Order deemed the allegations credible. Included in 4/2021 on the Springfield-Cape Girardeau diocese's list of accused, where he was pastor 1964-1971 of Sacred Heart in Salem, MO. Mrowinski died in 2008. Included on the Resurrectionists' list of credibly accused 10/27/2021. Included in 10/2022 on the Chicago archdiocese's list (name misspelled Mrowisnki). Named in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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Fr. Leonard Prusinski

Order: CR
Ordained: 1936
Status: Arrested

Died: 06/27/1995
Diocese: Diocese of St. Augustine FL

Name also spelled Pruszynski. Named publicly as credibly accused by the Resurrectionist Order on its list in 10/2021. Included on the Chicago Archdiocese's list in 10/2022. Per news accounts in 1961, Prusinski was arrested in Florida, along with 19 other men, for molesting children. Prusinski was pastor of St. John's in Panama City at the time. He was evidently kept in ministry. Prusinski died in 1995. Included in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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Fr. Konstanty Przybylski

Order: CR
Ordained: 1975
Status: Guilty plea

Diocese: Archdiocese of Chicago IL

Ordained in Poland. Worked as priest in Chicago area between 1980 and 1988. Transferred to Canada. Pleaded guilty in 2/2006 and sentenced 7/4/2006 to five years in prison for the sexual assault and sexual exploitation of two teenage boys in the Port Dover area between 1995 and 2000. Some of the abuse occurred when he took the boys on trips to Chicago and Europe. Later laicized. May have returned to the Chicago area after release from Canadian prison. Both plaintiffs filed civil suits in 2006. Included on the Resurrectionists' list in 10/2021. Included in 10/2022 on the Chicago archdiocese's list of credibly accused. Named in the 5/23/2023 IL Attorney General's Report.

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Resurrectionists / Congregation of the Resurrection – CR

11 Accused in This Religious Order

Fr. Stephen A. Juda

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Fr. Timothy F. Keppel

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Fr. Adalbert J. Kowalczyk

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Fr. Lawrence Kuntz

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Fr. Lawrence Kurlandski

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Fr. Patrick Mackan

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Fr. Donald P. Marrokal

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Fr. Theodore Meisner

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Fr. Charles A. Mrowinski

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Fr. Leonard Prusinski

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Fr. Konstanty Przybylski

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