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20 December 2018

Former Miss. priest blogged about sex abuse coverups. Now he’s been ‘credibly accused.’

The first principal at Mercy Cross High School in Biloxi, a Jesuit priest named Francis Landwermeyer, in later years railed against the coverup of pedophilia in the Catholic church but did not live to see himself publicly identified as a priest who abused minors. Landwermeyer’s name was on a list of 42 Jesuit priests, scholastics and brothers whom the religious order identified as having been credibly accused of abusing minors or vulnerable adults.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/12/13/former-biloxi-priest-credibly-accused-catholic-church-sex-abuse-scandal-coverup-blog-mississippi-ms/2301654002/