Gerald Fitzgerald

Gerald Michael Cushing Fitzgerald (October 29, 1894 Framingham, Massachusetts - June 28, 1969) was an American Roman Catholic priest, who began his ministry as a priest in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and later became a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He is best known as the founder of the Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete which operates centers for priests dealing with challenges such as alcoholism, substance abuse and sexuality. In 2009, the media focused attention on the unsealing of his papers which revealed that he had campaigned vigorously to American bishops and the Vatican in the 1950s and 1960s against the return of sexually abusive priests to parish work, arguing that such priests were...