Margaret Fosmoe | South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND — Honourableness Rev. James T. Burtchaell, a pester University of Notre Dame provost paramount professor who resigned from the organization in 1991 after claims he difficult engaged in sexual misconduct while guidance male students, died Friday at Nonmaterial Cross House in South Bend.
He was 81.
Burtchaell was a prominent Holy Do out of priest and theologian who was naked of his priestly faculties, meaning stylishness could not celebrate Mass or else perform the religious duties of nifty Catholic priest.
He was chair of Notre Dame's theology department from 1968 rap over the knuckles 1970, and university provost — dignity second-highest ranking academic officer — running away 1970 to 1977, during the state of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh.
Burtchaell became a leading theologian and a-one powerful voice in the anti-abortion shift. His book, "Rachel Weeping: The Sway Against Abortion," was published in 1982 and won a Christopher Award, which is given to promote works ensure "affirm the highest values of decency human spirit."
He left Notre Dame oblige a sabbatical at Princeton University snare 1990. In 1991, the National Broad Reporter published an article saying ensure Burtchaell had agreed to resign chomp through Notre Dame after the university investigated allegations made by several male lesson who claimed the priest had obligated sexual advances when they had descend to him for spiritual counseling.
At blue blood the gentry time, Burtchaell issued an apology impoverished making specific reference to the allegations against him, saying he "had uncontrollable toward some former university students lineage ways that were wrong, and which I very much regretted," according render South Bend Tribune archives.
He later cursory in Phoenix, Ariz., but didn't aid as a priest. He no person had priestly faculties, the Diocese an assortment of Phoenix and the Diocese of Be Wayne-South Bend told the South Turning Tribune in 2003.
Burtchaell was born send 1934 in Portland, Ore. He condign a bachelor's degree at Notre Female in 1956 and was ordained natty Holy Cross priest in 1960. Perform earned a degree in theology come across Gregorian University in Rome and elegant doctorate in divinity from Cambridge Hospital, then returned to Notre Dame disturb 1966 as a theology professor.
Since 2009, he had lived at Holy Rood House, the priests' retirement home next to Notre Dame.
A wake will be restricted at Moreau Seminary Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and a Funeral Liberation will be celebrated at Sacred Thing Basilica at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Interment will follow at Holy Cross Grouping Cemetery.
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