{"id":1901,"date":"2002-06-19T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2002-06-20T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2012-08-22T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T06:10:05","slug":"statement-from-saint-johns-abbey-on-compliance-with-the-u-s-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/statement-from-saint-johns-abbey-on-compliance-with-the-u-s-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Saint John\u2019s Abbey on Compliance with the U.S. Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Monks \u201con restriction\u201d have no pastoral or teaching responsibilities, nor do they have unsupervised social contact with students or other young persons. They are not allowed to work in the Preparatory School or University, to use most campus academic, athletic or social facilities, or to serve in parishes. They may not travel without permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Statement from Saint John\u2019s Abbey on Compliance with the U.S. Bishops\u2019 \u201cCharter for the Protection of Children and Young People\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June 19, 2002 &#8212; The U.S. Bishops\u2019 \u201cCharter for the Protection of Children and Young People\u201d requires that \u201cfor even a single act of sexual abuse of a minor \u2013 past, present or future \u2013 the offending priest or deacon will be permanently removed from ministry.\u201d The monastic community of Saint John\u2019s Abbey will comply with that requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Priests of Saint John\u2019s Abbey who have sexually abused any person, regardless of age, may not celebrate Mass publicly, administer the sacraments, or serve as spiritual directors. They will be assigned non-ministerial work in the monastery.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Bishops\u2019 Charter applies only to diocesan priests and deacons who have abused minors, Saint John\u2019s applies restrictions to all monks, ordained and non-ordained, who have committed sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Monks \u201con restriction\u201d have no pastoral or teaching responsibilities, nor do they have unsupervised social contact with students or other young persons. They are not allowed to work in the Preparatory School or University, to use most campus academic, athletic or social facilities, or to serve in parishes. They may not travel without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monks \u201con restriction\u201d have no pastoral or teaching responsibilities, nor do they have unsupervised social contact with students or other young persons. They are not allowed to work in the Preparatory School or University, to use most campus academic, athletic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/statement-from-saint-johns-abbey-on-compliance-with-the-u-s-bishops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-community","category-statements","category-todo","wp-image-borders"],"views":376,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}