Losing Faith: A monster emerges in our midst
This is Part 1 of a three-part series focusing on the pedophilia cases against the late Catholic deacon George Brignac. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator, Ramon Antonio Vargas / The New Orleans Advocate Published: 3:59 PM CST December 16, 2020 Updated: 8:30 PM CST December 18, 2020
NEW ORLEANS It was 1953, and George Brignac was fresh out of high school when he joined the regional chapter of the Christian Brothers.
He spent seven years with the Catholic order, which founded four well-known local schools: St. Paul’s in Covington, De La Salle and Christian Brothers in New Orleans, and Archbishop Rummel in Metairie. But, by 1960, the order had expelled him.
Losing Faith: A monster emerges in our midst
This is Part 1 of a three-part series focusing on the pedophilia cases against the late Catholic deacon George Brignac. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator, Ramon Antonio Vargas / The New Orleans Advocate Published: 4:59 PM EST December 16, 2020 Updated: 9:30 PM EST December 18, 2020
NEW ORLEANS It was 1953, and George Brignac was fresh out of high school when he joined the regional chapter of the Christian Brothers.
He spent seven years with the Catholic order, which founded four well-known local schools: St. Paul’s in Covington, De La Salle and Christian Brothers in New Orleans, and Archbishop Rummel in Metairie. But, by 1960, the order had expelled him.
A Monster in our Midst: The Story of George Brignac
It was 1953, and George Brignac was fresh out of high school when he joined the regional chapter of the Christian Brothers.
He spent seven years with the Catholic order, which founded four well-known local schools: St. Paul’s in Covington, De La Salle and Christian Brothers in New Orleans, and Archbishop Rummel in Metairie. But, by 1960, the order had expelled him.
Brignac told some people it was for “reasons of health.” Another time, his superior in the order said Brignac found “obedience difficult.”
Years later, his twin, a priest named Horace L. “H.L.” Brignac, revealed the truth in a statement to police: George Brignac had been “too friendly with boys.”
Losing Faith: A monster emerges in our midst
This is Part 1 of a three-part series focusing on the pedophilia cases against the late Catholic deacon George Brignac. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator, Ramon Antonio Vargas / The New Orleans Advocate Published: 2:59 PM MST December 16, 2020 Updated: 7:30 PM MST December 18, 2020
NEW ORLEANS It was 1953, and George Brignac was fresh out of high school when he joined the regional chapter of the Christian Brothers.
He spent seven years with the Catholic order, which founded four well-known local schools: St. Paul’s in Covington, De La Salle and Christian Brothers in New Orleans, and Archbishop Rummel in Metairie. But, by 1960, the order had expelled him.
More than 10,000 pages in an Orleans Parish district attorney s file on clergyman George Brignac were recently released to reveal decades of sexual abuse toward children, despite repeatedly being caught, within the Archdiocese of New Orleans.Â
Of the documents obtained by the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate, these eight letters, emails and forms highlight Brignac s career with the church and the molestation cases against him, including a statement from his brother, Brignac s official ordination and even a job questionnaire in which Brignac acknowledged his child molestation charge.Â
1. George Brignac s brother says he was too friendly with boys
George Brignac s twin brother, a priest named Horace H.L. Brignac Jr., tells a New Orleans police detective in November 2019 that George was kicked out of the Christian Brothers order in 1960 for being too friendly with boys. This New Orleans police record appears to be the first official document to become public which co