Assignment Record– Rev. Francis Xavier Markey Summary of Case: Francis Xavier Markey was ordained in 1952 for the Clogher diocese, Ireland, and was assigned to a parish in Magheracloon, Co Monagahn. He was suspended from there in 1964 and sent to a treatment facility when the first known accusation of child sexual abuse against him emerged. Markey was reassigned after 5 months of treatment to a parish in Threemilehouse, Co Monagahn. He was removed from that parish in 1973 when a report was made to the gardaí (Irish police) that he had sexually abused another child. This time Markey was sent to England for treatment at a facility run by the Servants of the Paraclete. He was allowed to work "under supervision" there in a temporary mission. In 1981 Markey was sent to the United States for further sex offender treatment at the Servants of the Paraclete's facility in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. In December 1981 he moved to the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota to receive training toward becoming a substance abuse counselor. While there he was allowed to serve as a fill-in priest at several rural parishes. In June 1981 Markey was removed when parents at one of the parishes complained that the priest was too affectionate with boys. Markey returned to Jemez Springs and became an affiliate of the Servants of the Paraclete (while still officially a priest of the Clogher diocese); he left the Order sometime before September 1985. Markey's whereabout in the late 1980s are murky. He is said to have had a stint as a rehabilitation counselor at a Betty Ford Clinic in the 1990s. The Official Catholic Directory places him in 1991-1992 as a chaplain at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette, Indiana. He settled sometime before or during the 1990s in South Bend, Indiana and worked as a substance abuse counselor in nearby Niles, Michigan from 2001-March 2009. In June 2006 a man reported to Irish police that Markey raped him on two occasions in 1968, when the man was a 15-year-old boy. In the Spring of 2008 a judge in Ireland issued warrants for Markey's arrest on each of the two charges. In November 2009 U.S. Marshals arrested Markey at his home in South Bend. He was extradited to Ireland in July 2010. In January 2011 he was accused of the sexual abuse of an 8-year-old Minnesota boy in 1982. A June 2013 lawsuit names Markey as having perpetrated sexual abuse against a 15-year-old rural Minnesota boy and his two brothers 30 years previously. Markey died in September 2012 in Ireland while awaiting trial.
Ordained: 1952 |
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| Start | Stop | Assignment | Town/Accusations | State/Country | Position | Notes |
1952 Clogher bishop was Eugene O'Callaghan (1943-1969). |
1964 | Parish | Magheracloone • Markey was suspended from ministry in 1964 for child sexual abuse. |
County Monaghan/Ireland |
Markey was a curate (parish priest). |
Markey was sent in 1964 to St. John of God's in Stillorgan, Co Dublin for 5 months of treatment. |
1964 O'Callaghan was succeeded by Ptrick Mulligan (1970-1979). |
1973 | Parish | Threemilehouse • In June 2006 Markey was accused of raping a 15-year-old boy in 1968, first during a religious pilgrimage in County Donegal, and again after the boy's father's funeral in County Galway. • Markey was suspended in 1973 for sexual abuse of another child. |
County Monaghan/Ireland | 2/2 Markey was a curate (parish priest). |
Markey was sent to St. John of God's again for treatment; this 1973 allegation was reported the gardaí (police). |
| 1973 | 1975 | Parish | Inniskeen • Another accusation of child sexual abuse surfaced in 1975, and Markey was again suspended. |
County Monaghan/Ireland | Markey was sent again for treatment, this time to England. | |
1975 Clifton bishop was Mervyn Alexander (1974-2001). |
Our Lady of Victory | Stroud | Gloucestershire/England | patient | Our Lady of Victory was a treatment center run by Servants of the Paraclete. | |
1975
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1981 | Gloucestershire/England | Markey was "under supervision" in a temporary mission. | |||
1981 Santa Fe archbishop was Robert F. Sanchez (1974-1993). |
Villa Louis Martin | Jemez Springs | NM/United States | Markey was sent for sex offender treatment at the Servants of the Paraclete's facility in New Mexico. | ||
Dec. 1981 New Ulm bishop was Raymond A. Lucker (1975-2000). |
1982 | Wilmar State Hospital | Wilmar | MN/United States | trainee | During his time of treatment in Jemez Springs NM, Markey was sent for training to be a substance abuse counselor at the Regional Treatment Center in Wilmar, MN. He arrived in December 1981. |
1982
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St. Thomas | Henderson |
MN/United States | fill-in priest | Markey did fill-in work at rural New Ulm parishes; he was in the diocese for 7 months. | |
| 1982 | Jessenland | MN/United States | fill-in priest | |||
| March 1982 | June 1982 | St. Andrew's | Granite Falls • Markey was accused in a December 2013 lawsuit of sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy at St. Andrew's in 1982. (Markey's accuser previously filed suit in January 2011; it was dismissed for procedural reasons.) |
MN/United States | fill-in priest | Markey is said to have been stationed at St. Andrew's for three months in 1982. He was removed from the parish after parents complained he was overly affectionate with boys. |
June 1982 Santa Fe archdiocese |
1985 | Villa Louis Martin | Jemez Springs | NM/United States | Markey returned to Servants of the Paraclete and became an affiliate member of the Order, while still a priest of the Diocese of Clogher. He left the Servants of the Paraclete before September 1985. | |
| 1985 | 1991 | Markey is not indexed in the 1986-1991 Directories. | ||||
| 1990s | Betty Ford Clinic | chaplain | This is per media reports. | |||
1991 Lafayette bishop was William L. Higi (1984-2010). |
1992 | St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center | Lafayette | IN/United States | chaplain | Markey is not indexed beyond the 1992 Directory. |
2001 Kalamazoo bishop was James A. Murray (1998-2009). Fort Wayne-South Bend bishop was John M. D'Arcy (1985-2010). |
March 2009 | Community Healing Center | Niles | MI/United States | drug and alcohol counselor | Markey lived in South Bend Indiana; Niles MI is nearby. A neighbor said the priest had lived in the South Bend home for at least 10 years. In 2002 Clogher bishop Joseph Duffy requested to Markey that he turn himself in to law enforcement in Ireland, but Markey refused. In 2006 a man reported to Irish police that Markey raped him on two occasions in 1968, when the man was a 15-year-old boy. Irish officials issued warrants for Markey's arrest on each of the two charges, one in April 2008 and the other in May of that year. |
| March 2009 | July 2010 | IN/ United States | U.S. Marshalls arrested Markey in November 2009 at his Indiana home. Markey fought extradition, but lost. He was taken to Ireland in July 2010. | |||
July 2010 Clogher bishop was Liam McDaid (2010-). |
Sept. 2012 | Ireland | Markey died in September 2012 while awaiting trial. In March 2014 the New Ulm diocese sued the Clogher diocese and the Servants of the Paraclete, claiming they never would have accepted Markey into the diocese had they known of his history of abuse. |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, ); Irish Catholic Directory and Almanac, Dublin: James Duff & Co., Ltd. 1954 - • Priest Jailed As Ireland Seeks Extradition, Markey, 81, Facing Child Sex Abuse Charges, By Kevin Allen, South Bend Tribune, November 10, 2009
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