John Aloysius Marshall
Template:Infobox bishopbiog John Aloysius Marshall (April 24, 1928—July 3, 1994) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Burlington, Vermont (1972-1992) and Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts (1992-1994).
Biography
John Marshall was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to John A. and Katherine T. (née Redican) Marshall.[1] After attending St. John's High School and Holy Cross College, he studied at the Collège de Montréal in Quebec and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.[1] While in Rome, Marshall was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Martin John O'Connor on December 19, 1953.[2] After a period of pastoral work, he completed his graduate studies at Assumption College in his native Worcester (1961-1968) and at the Pontifical North American College in Rome (1969-1971).[1]
On December 14, 1971, Marshall was appointed the seventh Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, by Pope Paul VI.[2] He received his episcopal consecration on January 25, 1972 from Bishop Robert Francis Joyce, with Bishop Bernard Joseph Flanagan and James Aloysius Hickey serving as co-consecrators.[2] His tenure in Burlington was marked by a decline in both vocations and church attendance, but still founded Our Lady of the Mountains Parish at Sherburne in 1979.[3] He completed the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in 1977, after an arsonist had destroyed the original cathedral in 1972.[4] From 1984 to 1990, he headed an apostolic visitation into the presence of homosexuality in American seminaries.[5] Records show that he transferred a priest from a Montpelier parish to another in Milton after charges of sexual abuse surfaced against the priest.[6]
Marshall was named the sixth Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, on February 18, 1992.[2] Although he established the Diocesan Misconduct Commission in response to sexual abuse among the clergy,[7] he accepted Rev. Edward Paquette despite the repeated allegations of child molestation against him.[8] Marshall even said that he was "determined to take the risk of leaving [Paquette] in his present assignment" despite "the demands of...irate parents that 'something be done about this.'"[9]
He later died at age 66.
References
- ^ a b c "Most Reverend John Aloysius Marshall, Seventh Bishop of Burlington". Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington.
- ^ a b c d "Bishop John Aloysius Marshall". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
- ^ "A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE BURLINGTON". Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington.
- ^ "The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception". The Sacred Congregation of Rites. 2008-11-29.
- ^ Rossini, Ellen (September 2002). "Pope to Church: Risky Seminarians Must Go". National Catholic Register.
- ^ O'Connor, Kevin (2007-07-01). "Records Show Vt. Church Knew of Child Sex Abuse". Rutland Herald.
- ^ Cullen, Kevin (2002-03-23). "Priest cites cost for speaking out". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Hemingway, Sam (2008-05-06). "New Revelations in Priest-Abuse Case". The Burlington Free Press.
- ^ "Off the Record". Catholic Culture. 2008-09-02.