Deacon Joseph I. Crowley, Jr. -Assignment

Deacon Joseph I. Crowley, Jr.

Ordained: 1980

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town	State	Position	Notes
1980	1992	St. Anne	Readville	MA		Readville was a Boston neighborhood. Parish had a school with 290-225 students.
1989	1994	Franciscan Children's Hospital	Brighton	MA	Chaplain	Brighton was a Boston neighborhood. Hospital was a pediatric rehabilitation facility.
1994	1999	Children's Hospital	Boston	MA	Chaplain	Convicted in 1999 of raping two family members, per Boston Globe article of 3-18-06.
1999	2006	?	?	?		The 2001-2002 Official Catholic Directories index Crowley as at Children's Hospital, but he is not listed there. He is indexed as retired in the 2003 Directory and as unassigned in the 2004 and 2005 Directories. He does not appear in the 2006 Directory. "Dismissed from public ministry" according to 3-18-06 Boston Globe article.

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1981-2006).

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