Donald McGuire (Jesuit)
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Donald McGuire (July 9, 1930 – January 13, 2017) was an American Jesuit priest and convicted child molester. Prior to his conviction, McGuire was a prominent member of the Jesuit Order and had served as confessor to Mother Teresa. He died in 2017, while serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Early life and career
McGuire was born on July 9, 1930, in Oak Park, Illinois. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1947 and was ordained a priest in 1961. After living in Germany and Austria in the early 1960s, McGuire took up a teaching post in 1965 at Loyola Academy, a high school in Chicago, but moved to Loyola University Chicago in 1970. From 1976 to 1981, he taught at the St. Ignatius Institute of the University of San Francisco. In 1983, he was appointed spiritual director of the Missionaries of Charity, an order founded by Mother Teresa, and also acted as Mother Teresa's confessor.
While at the University of San Francisco, McGuire developed a "roving ministry" leading spiritual retreats for wealthy Catholics.
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