{"id":705,"date":"2002-09-27T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-03-01T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T03:36:28","slug":"apology-from-fr-fran-hoefgen-o-s-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/apology-from-fr-fran-hoefgen-o-s-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology from Fr. Fran Hoefgen, O.S.B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For one child to ever suffer &#8211; that is the most horrible thing I can think of.&#8221; &#8211; Ray Vogel, who says three of his four sons were abused by priests from St. John&#8217;s Abbey.  <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the abbey released an apology from one of the monks on restriction. The apology is printed in its entirety:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>I express my personal apology for the incredible pain I have caused so many by my actions in the past. I apologize both to my victim and all in the Church whose faith I have shaken. Absolutely every day I feel profound anguish and sorrow and it weighs heavily on me. I can only turn to my God for healing and forgiveness for me and for those I have harmed in any way as a minister in the Church and as a friend. Every day I bring this to prayer as I grow in my awareness of the damage this has caused. I humbly ask for forgiveness and prayers from my victim, from all connected with Saint John&#8217;s, from those I served in parish ministry, my fellow monks, and personal friends.<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>&#8212; Fr. Fran Hoefgen, O.S.B. &#8211; September 27, 2002<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For one child to ever suffer &#8211; that is the most horrible thing I can think of.&#8221; &#8211; Ray Vogel, who says three of his four sons were abused by priests from St. John&#8217;s Abbey. On Friday, the abbey released &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/apology-from-fr-fran-hoefgen-o-s-b\/\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fran-hoefgen","wp-image-borders"],"views":1074,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}