 Note: The following letter was written by Abbot John Klassen, in support of Allen Tarlton and a letter Tarlton wrote to the members of the Oblates program. Abbot Klassen knew, when he wrote his letter, that Father Tarlton had more than one victim. In fact, at the time this letter was written, Tarlton was known to have had acted inappropriately with at least six University and Prep School students. That number is now over a dozen. The Abbey has settled complaints with several of Tarlton’s victims. The Abbot also knew that other claims made in Tarlton’s letter were inaccurate.
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Note: This letter was written on St. John’s Abbey letterhead:
“I live in a cell also, only it is a cell in a monastery. I am a Benedictine monk from Minnesota.”
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Filed Under: Allen Tarlton, Blane Wasnie, Brennan Maiers, Bruce Wollmering, Cosmos Dahlheimer, Dunstan Moorse, Finian McDonald, Fran Hoefgen, Francisco Schulte, Isaac Connolly, Jerome Tupa, Jim Phillips, John Eidenschink, John Kelly, Richard Eckroth, Robert Blumeyer, Tom Andert, William Skudlarek
According to multiple sources, St. John’s Abbey’s restriction monks:
- Brother Jim Phillips
- Brother Andre Bennett < - Died 2007
- Cosmas Dahlheimer <- Died 2002
- Richard Eckroth
- John Eidenschink <- Died 2004
- Thomas Gillespie
- Brennan Maiers
- Finian McDonald
- Dunstan Moorse
- Francisco Schulte <- Rome
- Allen Tarlton
- Isaac Connelly
- Michael Bik
- Bruce Wollmering <- Died 2009
- Robert Blumeyer <- Died 1983
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Oblates were invited for Evening Prayer and supper with the sisters before Abbot John Klassen of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville opened the series of Catholic Studies talks with Reconciliation: A Scarred Church Faces a New Century. Quite a sizable crowd gathered in Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel for the presentation.
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Abbot John Klassen of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville opened the series of Catholic Studies talks with Reconciliation: A Scarred Church Faces a New Century. Quite a crowd gathered in Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel for the presentation.
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Theologian John Klassen will speak on “Reconciliation: A Scarred Church Faces the New Century,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, at Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel on The College of St. Scholastica campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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“Blaine Wasnie has alway been and will always be a VERY difficult, angry, abusive man. Any member of the monastic community knows this and he should NEVER be in a position to interact with lay people.”
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According to a staff member at St. Benedict Church in Avon, MN, Father Blane Wasnie is “out” this week but will return next week.
Allegations of misconduct by the priest were recently uncovered.
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An update regarding Fr. Licari will be available soon.
Addition Search terms: Fr. Jonathon Licari
Fr. Tom Andert, OSB, unless I’m very much mistaken, was part and parcel of the sexual underground at the Prep School during the ~1980 time frame. While I have no specific allegations of sexual abuse against him, nor do I know of any, he was very good friends and daily colleagues of Br. Jim Phillips and Father Alan Tarleton during the relevant time periods. I would be VERY much surprised to learn he did not know of the sexual shenanigans doing on in the boys’ dorm and elsewhere.
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A second civil lawsuit has been filed in Stearns County Court against the Benedictine Order at St. John’s Abbey in St. Cloud. It accuses members of the order of covering up the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage boy in the 1980s. The late Rev. Bruce Wollmering, the Rev. Finnian McDonald and Brother John Kelly are named in the suit. The alleged victim’s lawyer, Patrick Noaker, said his client now lives on the West Coast.
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The second lawsuit in two weeks was filed Wednesday against St. John’s Abbey.
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In separate instances, over three years, three Benedictine clerics at St. John’s Abbey and university sexually abused a teenaged student, according to a new civil lawsuit filed today.
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For the second time in eight days, a lawsuit was filed against the Benedictine Order at St. John’s Abbey accusing it of covering up the sexual abuse of a student at St. John’s University 25 years ago.
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The second lawsuit in two weeks was filed Wednesday against St. John’s Abbey. The lawsuit accuses the abbey of fraud and contends that three monks either solicited or engaged in sexual misconduct with a former St. John’s University student.
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Once again, facing a child sex abuse and cover-up scandal, St. John’s Abbey officials trot out the same tired canard about their “policies” about pedophilia. (“Lawsuit targets St. John’s Prep School, abbey,” Dec. 9.)
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COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – What some might call a disturbing lawsuit was filed in Stearns County Tuesday alleging the cover-up of nearly 25 years of sex crimes committed by 11 Benedictine monks at St. John’s Abbey.
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A lawsuit filed in St. Cloud Tuesday accuses the Benedictine Order of covering up sex-abuse allegations that were made against 11 clerics working at St. John’s University in Collegeville in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
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A former St. John’s Prep School student sued the school and St. John’s Abbey on Tuesday, alleging fraud for allowing a monk to continue interacting with students after they received an allegation of sexual misconduct against the monk.
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A former St. John’s Prep School student sued the school and St. John’s Abbey on Tuesday, alleging fraud for allowing a monk to continue interacting with students after they received an allegation of sexual misconduct against the monk.
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Saint John’s learned earlier today of a possible lawsuit, which we plan to carefully review. We anticipate there may be news coverage of this tonight and tomorrow.
The individual named in the lawsuit was the subject of a press release by the abbey in July of 2006. [ View ]
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Attorneys for a man claiming he was sexually abused by clergy at St. John’s in Collegeville have filed a lawsuit, alleging a massive cover-up that spans more than 25 years.
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St. Cloud, Minn. — A Minnesota man Tuesday sued the Order of St. Benedict at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville over alleged sexual abuse.
Jeremiah McCarthy says he was a sophomore in 1971 at St. John’s Prep when Father Bruce Wollmering sexually abused him during a counseling session. Wollmering was a counselor at St. John’s Prep during the 1970s. He died earlier this year.
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There will be a press conference at 1pm on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at the courthouse in St. Cloud regarding St. John’s Abbey and Father Bruce Wollmering.
More details available soon. Here
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Note: The following letter was written by Abbot John Klassen, in support of Allen Tarlton and a letter Tarlton wrote to the members of the Oblates program. Abbot Klassen knew, when he wrote his letter, that Father Tarlton had more than one victim. In fact, at the time this letter was written, Tarlton was known to have had acted inappropriately with at least six University and Prep School students. That number is now over a dozen. The Abbey has settled complaints with several of Tarlton’s victims. The Abbot also knew that other claims made in Tarlton’s letter were inaccurate.