Formally defrocked Jesuit priest Donald J. McGuire, who was twice-convicted of multiple counts of pedophilia, has been medically diagnosed to suffer from the fatal illness of leukemia, according to test results by doctors. A close friend of McGuire dislosed his diagnosis to the Dallas Blog on Sunday after the priest called his residence on Saturday night. McGuire made the heavily-restricted and closely-monitored one-and-a-half minute phone call from a federal pentientiary in Springfield, Mo, which can be proven through phone records.

In October 2007, the Chicago Sun-Times did a front-page cover story of McGuire, and called him the "Most Dangerous Priest in America."

Initially, Donald McGuire garnered international acclaim in the early 1990s as the annointed spiritual confessor to the late-Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Some of his duties consisted of carefully examining the spiritual, psychological and backgrounds of all candidates intending to join the religious order of Mother Teresa, the 'Missionaries of Charity.'

But, his reputation and that of Mother Teresa's was rocked when numerous men and boys came forward to accuse the globe-trotting priest of being a serial pedophile, which eventually led to his two convictions in Wisconsin and Illinois. It's anticipated that he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Sources working closely with McGuire claim that he's been violently beaten by inmates on numerous occassions while prison guards watched in amusement. They insist that this is inappropriate behavior, since they continue to believe in his innocence, despite twice being judged by a jury of his peers that he's guilty.

Shortly before McGuire was convicted in the Chicago trial, the defrocked Jesuit spoke to the Dallas Blog on the phone around Christmas time in 2007. He loudly proclaimed his "innocence" in what could best be described as a "contentious" conversation.

Around that same time period, the Dallas Blog received thousands of pages of documents and evidence showing that his accussers may have perjured themselves on the witness stand in Wisconsin. They had proof that McGuire had proven alibis showing he was elsewhere on some of his so-called nightly escapades. Witnesses inacurately described his rectrory rooms and his physical body description when they were first interrogated by investigators in Wisconsin.

Sources from McGuire point their fingers at inadequate legal representation from his defense attorneys, Jerry Boyle and Stephen Komie, in the two trials. They claim they provided sufficient evidence to the lawyers to more rigourously cross-examine the accusers, but they failed to do so. After reading the entire transcripts of the Wisconsin trial, it appears that McGuire's team has a legitimate argument.

The McGuire team made attempts to approach media outlets this past year to show some of their evidence, but to no avail as an eeiry silence ensued. They were informed that editors were no longer interested in the story.

Nonethless, Barbara Blaine, a licensed attorney and founder of SNAP (the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priets), continues to focus her attentions on the convicted pedophile priest. A few months ago, she told the Dallas Blog that more accusers alleging sex crimes by McGuire will soon come forward with a "mountain of evidence" that will be difficult to dispute.

Some sources of McGuire's team insist that he can agree to a on-the-record interview, no-rules, no-strings-attached interview with Mr. McGregor if prison officials grant him the opportunity to tell his side of the story behind bars. About two years ago, McGuire confirmed this on the phone. However, media outlets were contacted to cover the exclusive interview, but nobody expressed a willingness to move forward on the project.

McGuire may likely be guilty of his crimes, and it would seem effective for a hard-nosed reporter to interview him for the public record. He would likely crumble during the interview and his friends would no longer doubt his guilt.

But if by chance, he's actually innocent, then he could reveal his evidence and explain how he was wrongly accused. Yet in all likelihood, he will die in prison without ever telling his side of the story to the public.

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