A Jesuit leader did nothing to stop a priest from sexually abusing children. The church may canonize him | New Orleans clergy abuse
NIn the 1970s and 1980s, a priest was appointed as a priest in the 1970s and 1980s, in the 1970s and 1980s, a priest was appointed.
The correspondence on the late Donald B Dickerson stem from a Louisiana State Court in June 2024, allegedly raping a 17 -year -old student in 1984. Rare, complex, claims that he has been raped in the new Orleans. Rare, complex, behind the stage, a worldwide repeated person to repeat a much earlier stage of the local leaders, how to continue again at an earlier stage of a previous universe. While encouraging children to receive psychological help.
Born in 1936 in Illinois, Jerseyville, Dickerson entered the Jesus Association in Louisiana in August 1971 and gave his first oath the day before he was 37 years old.
The Jesuits enters a year of formation that started with a process that started with a two -year inexperience and lasts with a process that could last for 15 to 20 years after being assigned with the last oaths. Although the Jesuits are not a priest until coordination, after the order, Jesus begins to use the initials of “SJ için for the society.
At the beginning of his formation, Dickerson was appointed to the Cisuvit High School in New Orleans, where letters were exploited two children. According to the court documents, in the beginning of December 1974, he introduced to a child in a high school award ceremony.
In 1974, Jesuit Reverend Anthony McGinn – He will then serve as the President of New Orleans High School – Dickerson described it as lazy and manipulative.
McGinn, now in the court case, a character evaluation of a character, which is an exhibition looking for harm from the Loyola and Jesuit Order. “This is a dangerous sign that society will have difficulty in the coming years.”
Dickerson, McGinn, who does not respond to the request for comment, should not proceed to the theology, the next level of the formation.
Despite the negative assessment, Dickerson went to theology education in Chicago.
In March 1975, to discuss several clergy during a six -hour meeting attended by a brother in multiple priests and cisuite provinces. Jesuit Reverend Louis LambertThe assistant formation and a high -level Jesuit in the region decided that Dickerson had made great progress in the study of problems ”and that the last psychological report about it was“ positive ”. At this meeting, despite the warnings of four priests Mcginn, he voted to send Dickerson to theology.
By 1977, the concerns of the senior Jesuit Reverend Thomas Sthel reached a crisis point. Stahel, the state of the former New Orleans province of the Jesuits, learned another accusation that Dickerson had a small harassment. Five days before Christmas that year, then Serve as an executive editor In America magazine, Dickerson left in detail to the world leader of the Jesuits, with a long letter to the superior General Pedro Arrulect.
Sthel, a week before Dickerson is a priest, “I do not think that we can present Dickerson to the Bishop ready for coordination,” Sthel wrote. “I recommend that we ask a question about the postponement of Dickerson’s coordination at least and staying with him in society.”
‘Under enough control’
According to the letter, the arrupt had already acknowledged that Dickerson’s coordination should be postponed.
It is unclear whether the Arrupt responded to this letter. The National Catholic correspondent, the superior general and the provinces of New Orleans did not receive any other documents that detailed back and forth.
Sthel wrote with Lambert that he had contacted with the arrulect to help a discussion with Dickerson about how to deal with Dickerson.
Dickerson, who participated in a letter of 1977, believed that the Cisitive Supervisors believed that the psychosexual problem was under sufficient control ”.
Nevertheless, Stahel, who details the serious concerns about Dickerson’s “conformity ına for priest, found himself in a dead end with Lambert. Sthel Üstün thinks that Dickerson does not have any more risk than the assigned others and describes the last event as a sad shift. I am not reasons. ” He wrote.
“I have a prominent impression of FR [Father] Lambert’s resistance on this issue is not with the basis of his case, but on the privileges of the jealous guard and his assistant. It was determined that I had nothing to say about Dickerson’s order, and it was impossible for the minds to come to a meeting.
Explaining the dispute, Sthel claimed that Lambert saw Dickerson’s inappropriate behavior as the result of nerves-and the arrant’s coordination of the unjust “strong arm tactics” rejected the movement.
Lambert, Stahel, “A man argued that after his approved for the coordination of society (as Dickerson), the society depends on him. Nothing could disqualify him between such reasoning and approval and coordination.”
In September 1978, Arrupa said that he received a psychological report about Dickerson in a letter to Lambert, but the details of this report were not ready. Üstün General, I will expect more information about Father Sthel’s case, ”he wrote.
Dickerson had received psychological treatment at least twice until then – in 1975 and 1978. Later, Foundation House said that he sent it to “comprehensive psychological therapy .. Paraclete Maids Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
Dickerson was still not appointed in the summer of 1979, when Dickerson said that Dickerson said that the sexual harassment of a non -disregarded child was a “relatively insignificant event”.
The province did not agree.
“I didn’t feel that I could assign him until he lifted his concerns that such events would be again,” Sthel wrote.
‘I thought he had to take part’
However, Sthel’s concerns about Dickerson apparently decreased after that year after realizing that Dickerson’s “scandal” may be caused by the causes of harassing children. Sthel wrote a memorandum dated December 30, 1979. Six months later, on June 7, 1980, Bishop Joseph Vath was appointed by Alabama, Birmingham.
Dickerson started teaching at the Boys Jesuit Preparatory School in Dallas The same year. However, in 1981, after a claim from a child’s parents, he was removed from Cizvit Dallas. In September 1981, Louisiana was sent to St John Berchmans, a co-edged at Shreveport.
A case of 12 million dollars Later, he accused Dickeron of raping a child there in 1982.
That year, Sthel wrote to Dickerson in the hope that “nothing will happen in Shreveport”. The case was solved for an unnamed amount.
Two years later, in August 1984, in a letter to Dickerson, Cizvit Piest Edmundo RodriguezThe new province in New Orleans said that “the task of protecting society and church from its unacceptable behaviors”.
Dickerson’s 1984 psychological profile, written by the servants of Paraclete, the order of men who treat problematic monks, needed him “very sick” and intense, long -term treatment. During the evaluation of Dickerson, he said he was harassed by a six -year -old man, according to clinical notes in the latest New Orleans case.
In September 1984, a mother wrote a letter to Alexandria Bishop claiming that Dickeron had harassed her son.
“He’s been rejected by his natural father lately,” he said son’s son. “Instead of the help of Fr Dickerson, he was more mentally damaged.” He added that Dickerson should never work near the children again.
Court documents show this Cizvit Priest Thomas Barberito In August 1984, he spoke to Bishop about the “Fr Dickerson situation .. According to Barberito, the bishop said he would necessarily express the concerns if he contacted one of the relevant parties.
Dickerson’s Jesuit Supervisors appointed him to the University of Loyola to New Orleans in 1985. There the New Orleans case claims that he has abused another child. Nevertheless, Dickerson continued to support the top directly, even while faced the investigation.
In a communication dated February 28, 1986, Rodriguez wrote, “Don needs to be given for the benefit of suspicion,” he wrote.
However, in the early March 1986, after Rodriguez received three different claims against Dickerson within a week, the state encouraged him to abandon him from the priest to öyle to save everyone from a very painful process ”.
Dickerson thanked the state for the “desire to suspend the judgment on the problem of moral guilt and to accept my real efforts to overcome my tendencies”. On March 12, 1986, Rodriguez wrote that he had communicated Jesuit Reverend Peter-Hans KolvenbachAt that time, the superior general of the order demands that Dickerson be rejected from society and priest life.
Since its indiscrimination, Dickerson has been at the center of more than one case beyond the last New Orleans case. It is unclear whether the minors face criminal charges for sexual abuse charges.
A case in 2009 settled After being accused of harassing an eighth grade child. In 2010, Dickerson was accused of raping an 11 -year -old child at St John Berchmans in 1982, in 1982, in 1982, and a former Cizvit Dallas student. He filed a lawsuit for school In 2019, he claimed that Dickerson had alcohol and raped him during a trip to Alabama decades.
For 18 years, as a Cizvit Üstün General, two years after an arouter, disabled stroke, he appeared as a very respected leader who was loved by the religious community of men during his resignation in 1983. At the end of the Second World War, it was known that the US survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
ARRUPE’s reason for canonizationOpened in Rome in 2019, it continues to be active. In the New Orleans case focused on Dickerson, lawyers representing the plaintiff Richard Trarant, John Denenea and Soren Gcesson argues that they should not be taken into account for saints.
While the superior general could stop Dickerson’s duty, Arru 4’s biographies and statements showed that the Jesuit Order was against an authoritarian leadership. If the local Jesuit officials decide to appoint Dickeron, it is unclear whether the Arrulect would not step into stop and go in, or that he has all the facts that support such a decision.
Dawn, a writer and a Canon lawyer, said Goldstein said that there was enough evidence to say that the Jesuits were dealing with the Dickerson case. “At this point, we do not know that it could be a senior level following the accepted procedures of that time,” he said. However, he added that this statement did not justify his actions.
Canada and the United States did not respond to multiple comments on the Cisuite Conference, and other records related to Dickerson are in the files of the Jesuits in Rome. McGinn is the only Jesuit official who is still alive in this story.
The case continued as of the weekend of August 22.
