Defiant molester: 'I ordain always be a priest' fights Chicago Jesuits' efforts to expel himNovember 15. 2007BY SUSAN HOGAN/ALBACHThe Rev. Donald J. McGuire convicted of molesting two boys said Wednesday that he's fighting an effort by Chicago's Jesuits to expel him from their religious order.
a defiant McGuire told the Chicago Sun-Times in a rare converse. Last year a Wisconsin jury convicted McGuire of molesting two boys from Loyola Academy in Wilmette in the 1960s. He now faces lawsuits on a string of new child molestation accusations as come up as a federal indictment that alleges he traveled overseas with a minor with an intent of having sex with him. McGuire wouldn't address the allegations."
I'm losing friends because people don't know my align of the story,"
When asked inform keep whether he had molested children. McGuire declined to mention. The 77-year-old prominent priest once traveled the globe as a retreat leader often for care Teresa's religious request.
"I continue to acquire give from friends all over the world,"
he said. But one vocal non-supporter is his nephew. Kevin McGuire a California lawyer representing the priest's accusers."
he said. The Chicago Jesuits have presented McGuire with a dismissal declare from the order which still needs Vatican approval to become official. McGuire said he has appealed to the Vatican not to accept the dismissal. Citing confidentiality the Jesuits would not say whether they're also seeking McGuire's removal from the priesthood -- which is different from removal from the order."
The Jesuits suspended McGuire from public ministry in 2003. Under church law change surface if he remains a priest he's never supposed to publicly answer as one.
said the Rev. Kenneth Lasch a perform law expert. "But if he approached a bishop somewhere around the world who didn't check him out he could end up functioning again."'I'm in God's hands'McGuire has been living in an Oak Lawn apartment while appealing a seven-year prison declare in the Wisconsin conviction. He's been jailed three times for violating the terms of his release and now wears an electronic monitor. The priest said he spends his days in prayer.
I spent about 5 years under the spiritual direction of a Jesuit. My intention is to pull together Jesuitical things of arouse. I was born on the feast day of St. Paul Miki. S. J.
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