(Credit: Associated Press)
Catholic leaders in Texas have identified 286 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children — a number that represents one of the largest collection of names to be released since an explosive grand jury report last year in Pennsylvania.
Fourteen dioceses in Texas on Thursday named those credibly accused of abuse. The only diocese not to provide names, Fort Worth, did so more than a decade ago.
Within the Austin Diocese, there are 22 names on the list, including a former St. Edward’s University professor.
The Austin Diocese list includes:
Aguilar, Ricardo
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Laicized
- Birth: 1959
- Ordination: 1995
- Removal from Ministry: 2011
- Laicization: 2017
Clogan, Paul M.
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Portland, Maine
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1931
- Ordination: 1999
- Death: 2012
Delaney, Daniel Joseph
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1946
- Ordination: 1973
- Death: 2008
Drinan, Daniel Michael
- Diocese or Religious Order: Congregation of Missionaries, Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Current Status: Laicized
- Birth: 1948
- Ordination: 1977
- Removal from Ministry: 2002
- Expulsion: 2006
- Laicization: 2014
Eggerling, Milton
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Oakland, previously of the Diocese of Sioux Falls
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1921
- Ordination: 1954
- Death: 2008
Faust, Claude
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1914
- Ordination: 1939
- Death: 1973
Gallagher, James
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin (Deacon)
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1932
- Diaconate Ordination: 1984
- Death: 2005
Garcia, Jim Castro
- Diocese or Religious Order: Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica
- Current Status: Priest for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica
- Birth: 1968
- Ordination: 2017
Greenwell, James H.
- Diocese or Religious Order: Third Order Regular of St. Francis, previously of the Order of Friars Minor
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1924
- Ordination: 1954
- Death: 2012
Hand, Jr., Chester Culver
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1920
- Ordination: 1986
- Death: 2002
Kinder, Conrad
- Diocese or Religious Order: Society of the Divine Word
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1891
- Ordination: 1921
- Death: 1978
Krol, Michael Francis
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1919
- Ordination: 1945
- Death: 1996
Muller, Gerald
- Diocese or Religious Order: Congregation of Holy Cross (Religious Brother)
- Current Status: Restricted
- Birth: 1927
- Vows: 1946
- Removal from Ministry: 2017
- Restricted: 2017
Nowery, C. Richard
- Diocese or Religious Order: Congregation of Holy Cross
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1938
- Ordination: 1968
- Death: 2018
O’Connor, James R.
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Laicized
- Birth: 1942
- Ordination: 1969
- Removal from Ministry: 2004
- Laicization: 2018
Ozuna, Rafael Rendon
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin (Deacon)
- Current Status: Laicized
- Birth: 1944
- Diaconate Ordination: 2007
- Removal from Ministry: 2010
- Laicization: 2013
Reyes, Longinus Juventius
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Removed from Ministry, Retired
- Birth: 1942
- Ordination: 1969
- Removal from Ministry: 2004
- Retirement: 2004
Robles, Victor G.
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin, previously of the Society of Jesus
- Current Status: Removed from Ministry, Retired
- Birth: 1953
- Ordination: 1986
- Removal from Ministry: 2002
- Retirement: 2009
Tijerina, Alberto Matta
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin, previously of the Diocese of San Angelo
- Current Status: Removed from Ministry
- Birth: 1954
- Ordination: 1980
- Removal from Ministry: 1993
Waiches, Vincent
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of San Diego, previously of the Society of the Divine Word
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1919
- Ordination: 1946
- Death: 1995
Willemsen, Adrianus Johannes
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin, previously of the Congregation of the Mission of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- Current Status: Deceased
- Birth: 1928
- Ordination: 1954
- Death: 2012
Wozniak, Louis J.
- Diocese or Religious Order: Diocese of Austin
- Current Status: Removed from Ministry, Retired
- Birth: 1926
- Ordination: 1951
- Removal from Ministry: 2015
- Retirement: 1999
There are only a handful of states where every diocese has released names and most of them have only one or two.
The move by Texas church leaders follows a shocking Pennsylvania report in August detailing seven decades of child sexual abuse by more than 300 priests.
In the months after that report, about 50 dioceses and religious provinces released the names of nearly 1,250 priests.
