Sexual abuse scandal in the Society of Jesus
[4] Robert Goldberg, one of McGuire's victims who was instrumental in his conviction,[4] filed a lawsuit against both the Midwest Jesuit Province and the main Society of Jesus office in Rome in 2019.
[12] In March 2011, the Oregon Jesuit Province agreed to pay nearly 500 victims of sex abuse $166.1 million.
[14] In 2002, criminal charges were brought against five Roman Catholic priests in the Boston area of the United States, John Geoghan, Paul Desilets,[15] Paul Shanley, Robert V. Gale and Jesuit priest James Talbot, which ultimately resulted in the conviction and sentencing of each to prison.
[16] In 1985, Jesuit priest Norman J. Rogge pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a boy in 1984 and received a one-year prison sentence.
[17] He previously pleaded guilty to another charge of sex abuse against a minor in 1967 and received a sentence of three years probation and forced psychiatric therapy.
The victims also accused both Cheverus High School and the Portland Diocese of hiding information, and that they had previously known about the abuse.
[19] On September 24, 2018, Talbot pled guilty to the sex abuse charges in Maine and immediately began serving two concurrent three-year prison sentences.
[20][21] On January 15, 2018, the USA Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus released a list Tuesday of 50 priests under its jurisdiction who had been "credibly accused" of sexual misconduct with minors[22] The list includes priests who served in Jesuit high schools and colleges throughout New England, New York and northern New Jersey.
[22] On December 7, 2018, the USA Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus released a list of 42 priests under its jurisdiction who had allegations of sex abuse.
[38] In 2010, Padre Wolfgang S. admitted to several acts of sexual abuse of minors during his years as a teacher in Sankt Blasius from 1982 to 1984.
[40] The same report named another Jesuit who a complaint was made - Father Paul Andrews, now deceased, who had been rector of Belvedere College for a while.
[40] Andrews was allowed to resume his duties without restriction until 2002, when a newly-formed Child Protection Committee was asked to review the case.
[40] Said committee said that the DPPs' decision was neither a declaration of guilt of innocence and he should be no longer allowed to practice any kind of ministry with minors.
[40] Andrews and two other priests - who were aware of the complaint against Marmion, agreed that the need to safeguard the reputation of the Jesuit order and avoid public scandal was central.
[40] The report says that it cannot be known if the complaint against Andrews influenced him in keeping Marmions' history of child sexual abuse secret.
[40] The Jesuit superior general Arturo Sosa then revealed on 14 December 2022 that, after a 2019 complaint, Marko Rupnik had been convicted and sanctioned by the Holy See for the ecclesiastical crime of absolution of an accomplice.
Despite the earlier statement on 2 December 2022, the restrictions on Rupnik's ministry "actually dated from that confession-related conviction, and not the 2021 allegations that the Vatican’s sex crimes office decided to shelve because they were deemed too old to prosecute.
Stefan Dartmann disclosed that the same abusive teacher in Germany had been guilty of similar crimes in Jesuit schools in Chile and Spain.
[43] In August 2019, revelations surfaced that Jesuit Father Renato Poblete, who died in 2010, had sexually abused 18 adult women and four underage female minors.
