Father Donald Keenan
Diocese of Metuchen
Ordained: 1943
Died: 1995
Assigned as follows:
- 1943-1944 St. Joseph’s Passionist Monastery (Baltimore, MD)
- 1944-1947 St. Ann’s (Scranton, PA)
- 1947-1951 St. Mary’s / St. Mary’s Passionist Monastery (Dunkirk, NY)
- 1951-1961 Passionist Fathers Sacred Heart Retreat (Toronto, CA)
- 1961-1966 Passionist Monastery (Union City, NJ)
- 1966-1967 Our Lady of Florida Monastery, North Palm Beach, FL
- 1967-1974 Holy Family Monastery, Farmington, CT
- 1976-1987 St. Gabriel’s Passionist Monastery, Boston, MA)
- 1984-1987 Priests of the Province residence houses not listed
- 1988-1994 Passionist Provincial House, South River, NJ
- 1995 Holy Family Monastery, West Hartford, CT
- 1996-2019 Unknown
Summary of Abuse Allegations against Father Donald Keenan:
Father Donald Keenan was ordained a Passionate Missionaries priest in 1943 and served in the Diocese of Metuchen. He served in multiple parishes throughout his career. According to media reports, in 1998, he was accused of masturbating two boys in 1977, and insisting that they masturbate him. One boy was 13 years old and the other was mentally challenged. The alleged abuse occurred at Brother Keenan’s family home in Malden, Massachusetts, where he had retired to in 1975. One victim said Brother Keenan was friendly with his family and his parents would never believe the things he did to him, so he never told them.
Brother Keenan died in 1995. His name was one of 70 religious order and visiting priests omitted from an official list of publicly accused sexual abusers that the Archdiocese of Boston published in August 2011.
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