Category Archives: Benilde-St. Margaret’s

Accused Priest Transferred To Benilde

Posted on May 17, 2002
Posted in Benilde-St. Margaret's, Dunstan Moorse, Jerome Thiesen

Documents from St. John’s Abbey show that a priest accused of sexually abusing students was transferred to teach at a Twin Cities parochial high school in the late 1980s.

Report: Documents Show Abbot Transferred Accused Priest to School

Posted on May 16, 2002
Posted in Benilde-St. Margaret's, Dunstan Moorse, Jeff Anderson, Jerome Thiesen

The former abbot of St. John’s Abbey knew it was a risk to transfer a priest accused of sexually abusing students to a teaching position at a Twin Cities school, internal abbey documents show.

Obituary: the Rev. Peregrin Berres of St. John’s Abbey

Posted on April 17, 1999
Posted in Benilde-St. Margaret's, Daniel Durken, Obituary, Peregrin Berres

The Rev. Peregrin Jerome Berres was killed in a one-car accident in Maple Grove on Friday evening. He was 68.

Priest sexually abused 2 students, suits claim

Posted on August 8, 1991
Posted in Benilde-St. Margaret's, Dunstan Moorse, Jeff Anderson

Lawsuits filed Tuesday in Stearns County District Court claim that a priest who taught religion at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minn., sexually abused two former students.