Rev. Bruce Duncan MacArthur-Assignment

Rev. Bruce Duncan MacArthur

Ordained: 1953

Sued 2003 by one woman. Other victims known. Arrested 1/06; charged with abuse of three girls at Beaver Dam hosp. in 1960s. Admitted abusing thirty girls. Diocese knew of behavior in 1963. Sent to prison in TX in 1978 for abuse of nursing home patient and then reassigned as priest. Suits filed 7/07 & 9/07 in WI. against Milwaukee archdiocese and Sioux Falls SD Diocese by two women under new WI Supreme Court ruling. WI Supreme Court also ruled that SOL stopped when priest left state. Convicted and sentenced to prison 8/08.

Start	Stop	Assignment	Town/Accusations	State	Position	Notes
1953 Sioux Falls bishop was William Otterwell Brady (1939-1956)	1955	St. Lawrence's	Milbank	SD	2/2	Parish had a school with 135-171 students.
1955 Lambert Anthony Hoch replaced Brady as bishop (1956-1978)	1957	Sacred Heart	Yankton	SD	3/3	Parish had a school with 301 students.
1957 Washington DC archbishop was Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle (1947-1973)	1959	Catholic University	Washington	DC
1959	1960	State Hospital	Yankton	SD	Chaplain
1960	1963	St. Peter the Apostle	Platte • Sexually abused girls at this parish. When some of them told their parents, Bishop Hoch sent MacArthur away for treatment. (Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) June 22, 2003) Five women accused MacArthur in a 2004 lawsuit of having sexually abused them as children from 1961-1963 in the Yankton and Platte areas. (Associated Press State & Local Wire July 19, 2004)	SD	1/1	MacArthur was treated in 1963 at Via Coeli in Jemez Springs New Mexico. This was a center for deviant priests. (Argus Leader [Sioux Falls, SD] May 22, 2003)
1960	1963	St. Willibrord's	Robey	SD		This was a mission of St. Peter the Apostle in Platte.
1963	1965	St. William's	Ramona • MacArthur was pulled by Hoch from this parish and sent to Milwaukee after another complaint of child sexual abuse. (Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) May 22, 2003)	SD	1/1
1963	1965	St. Ann's	Badus	SD		This was a mission of St. William's in Ramona.
1965 Milwaukee archbishop was William Edward Cousins (1958-1977)	1966	St. Philip Neri	Milwaukee	WI		The 1966 Directory's Sioux Falls diocesan pages list MacArthur as this WI parish, but he is not listed there in the Milwaukee diocesan pages.
1966	1970	St. Joseph's Hospital	Beaver Dam • Named in a 2003 as having sexually abused a girl, whom he met as a patient at the hospital, from the time she was 10 years old and until she was in high school. (Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) May 22, 2003) Sioux Falls bishop Carlson said at the time of the lawsuit that the diocese had records of six allegations against MacArthur. (Associated Press State & Local Wire July 19, 2004) Additional women have come forward to report sexual abuse by MacArthur while they were hospitalized as children at St. Joseph's. (Fond Du Lac Reporter January 4, 2008)	WI	Chaplain
1970	1971	St. John de Britto	Britton	SD	1/1
1971	1973	St. Boniface	Seneca	SD	1/1
1971	1973	Gettysburg Memorial Hospital	Gettysburg	SD	Chaplain
1973 El Paso bishop was Sidney Matthew Metzger (1942-1978)	1977	St. Patrick's Cathedral	El Paso	TX	7/7 In residence.	The 1974 Directory is the only one that both indexes and lists MacArthur as at St. Patrick's. the 1975-1979 Directories index him but do not list him there in the El Paso diocesan pages. The parish had a school.
1977	1979	Prison	• MacArthur spent more than two years in prison four attempting to rape a disabled 54 year old female resident of the Four Seasons Nursing Home in El Paso. (El Paso Times January 21, 2006)		inmate
1979 San Antonio bishop was Patrick Fernandez Flores (1979-2004)	1984	St. James the Apostle	San Antonio	TX	2/3, 2/2	Parish had a school with 298-369 students. The 1981 and 1982 Directories' Sioux Falls pages index MacArthur as at St. James, but he is not listed there in the San Antonio diocesan pages.
1984 Brownsville bishop was John Joseph Fitzpatrick (1971-1991)	1985	St. Joseph's	Brownsville	TX	4/4	The other priests were of the O.M.I. (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) order.
1985 Galveston-Houston bishop was Joseph Anthony Fiorenza ((1984-2006)	1986	Immaculate Conception	Houston	TX		Another O.M.I. parish. The Directory's Sioux Falls diocesan pages list him as there, but he's not listed there in the Galveston-Houston diocesan pages.
1986 Victoria bishop was Charles Victor Grahmann (1982-1989)	1987		Port Lavace	TX		The Directory's Sioux Falls pages list him as at Box 87, Port Lavace TX.
1987	1988		Kalabo W.P.	Zambia
1988	1989	Catholic Relief Services	San Antonio	TX
1989	1990	On duty outside the diocese				The 1990 Directory's Sioux Falls diocesan pages do not indicate where MacArthur was on duty.
1990 El Paso bishop was Raymundo Joseph Pena (1980-1994)	1991		Clint	TX
1991 San Angelo bishop was Michael David Pfeifer, O.M.I. (1985- )	1992	St. Mary's	San Angelo	TX		The address given in the Directory's Sioux Falls pages is for this parish, although MacArthur is not listed there in the San Angelo diocesan pages. After 1992, MacArthur is no longer indexed in the Directories. MacArthur no longer served in ministry after 1992. He lived in New Mexico and in Texas for a time. He eventually became a resident of a surpervised facility for priests in St. Louis, MO. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to having sexually abused three young girls as a hospital chaplain in Wisconsin in the late 1960s. He was sentenced to six months in jail, then one month per year for the six following years. Per a victim's request, he was also to have ten two hour private conversations with her. (TMJ4 August 15, 2008)

Source: Official Catholic Directory (New York: Kenedy & Sons, 1954-1992).

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