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Other Christian institutions & contexts Catholic United States (national) · 2018

United States: Jesuits West and Jesuits Midwest provinces each publish named lists of members with established sexual-abuse allegations

Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Official finding

Authority role

Society of Jesus, USA West and USA Midwest provinces, Roman Catholic religious order operating schools, parishes and retreat houses

Organization

Society of Jesus, USA West Province, Society of Jesus, USA Midwest Province

Spiritual nexus

Both province-level disclosures list clergy whose access to child and adult victims ran through their ordained and educational roles inside Jesuit institutions; the provinces' own review processes, not a court, are the source of the 'established allegation' finding, and this record is entered as an institutional-event finding rather than as any single member's criminal conviction.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2018-12-07 · official province-level disclosure

    Society of Jesus, USA West Province (internal review, published). Jesuits West published a list of members of the province with one or more established allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, naming clergy and stating the province's own review findings; the list is maintained and updated by the province.

  2. 2018-12-17 · official province-level disclosure

    Society of Jesus, USA Midwest Province (internal review, published). Jesuits Midwest published a list covering members since 1955: 37 living Jesuits with established allegations while still living, 18 more established only after the accused had died, and 10 named in allegations the province had not independently verified. The province stated this consolidated and extended earlier partial disclosures.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • clerical and educational authority within Jesuit-run schools and parishes across the two provinces' territories
  • internal case-review processes that determined 'established allegations' without always resulting in criminal referral

Primary record

Sources

official commission finding official press release Jesuits USA Midwest Province, 'Midwest Jesuits Release Names of those with Established Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors Since 1955' (17 December 2018).

The province's own press release publishing the list and explaining its three categories of established allegation.

official commission finding official press release Santa Clara University, 'Jesuits West Province Announcement from the President' (7 December 2018).

Reproduces the Jesuits West provincial's announcement accompanying the province's own published list.

national broadcaster court reporting news report CNN via KBZK, 'Jesuits release lists of clergy accused of abusing minors' (17 December 2018).

National wire summary of both province releases and their scope.

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