Ex-Jesuit Priest from Illinois Convicted in Sexual Abuse Case

Donald J. McGuire, 78, a Jesuit priest who was only defrocked in February 2008 was convicted in Federal Court in Chicago of engaging in sexual activity with a teenage boy who accompanied him on religious trips to Europe and Minnesota in 2000 and 2002, acording to an article in the New York Times.

Described by prosecutors as a "wolf in sheep's clothing" evidence was presented that showed that McGuire started abusing his victim in 1999 at the age of 13.  Mr. McGuire who taught at Loyola Academy a Jesuit preparatory school in suburban Chicago directed retreats for laypeople and members of Mother Teresa's religious order.