Category Archives: John Nienstedt

Archdiocese Statement Regarding Backous

Posted on June 11, 2014
Posted in John Nienstedt, Tim Backous

STATEMENT OF BISHOP ANDREW COZZENS REGARDING FATHER TIMOTHY BACKOUS, O.S.B. June 11, 2014

Letter from Victim’s Parents Regarding Father Tim Backous

Posted on June 10, 2014
Posted in Donald Kettler, John Klassen, John Nienstedt, Paul Richards, Tim Backous

May 31, 2014 Most Reverend John Neinstedt D.D., S.T.D. Office of the Archbishop 266 Summit Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55102

How Patrick Wall became the Catholic church’s worst nightmare

Posted on March 19, 2014
Posted in John Nienstedt, Kevin McDonough, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Thomas Doyle

Patrick Wall flips through a six-inch-thick binder in a law office that once housed a confessional booth. He’s got whole boxes yet to comb through, each containing several decades’ worth of internal church memos, affidavits, and police reports.

Tevlin: The Catholic Church’s long, weird week

Posted on December 17, 2013
Posted in Aelred Senna, John Nienstedt, Kevin McDonough, Pat Marker, Peter Sullivan

Patrick Marker has run a website dedicated to exposing abusive priests and offering a platform for victims for more than 10 years, so he’s used to getting mail.

Archbishop Nienstedt: ‘I overlooked this’

Posted on December 15, 2013
Posted in 2013 Archdiocesan List, John Nienstedt

(Fox 9) – Archbishop John Nienstedt spoke at Our Lady of Grace Parish in Edina on Sunday regarding priest sexual misconduct and the failure to release those accused, admitting he “should have investigated it a lot more than [he] did.”

Msgr. Jerome Boxleitner (Updated)

Posted on March 16, 2013
Posted in Harry Flynn, Jerome Boxleitner, John Nienstedt, John Roach, Kevin McDonough, Mike O'Connell

[Updated March 18, 2013 @ 11:01pm] This past Sunday, I had a conversation with a victim of sexual abuse perpetrated by Msgr. Jerome Boxleitner.  Boxleitner is not a monk from St. John’s but his name appears on this web site. Officials … Continue reading →

Archbishop denies GLBT group its Communion during CSB/SJU event

Posted on October 6, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, John Nienstedt

The archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis refused to serve Communion to members of a gay and lesbian student group who were wearing rainbow buttons at a Sept. 26 Mass at St. John’s University’s campus.

Gay Activists Denied Communion

Posted on October 5, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, John Nienstedt

During a St. John’s Abbey mass, students and others wearing protest buttons and sashes received Archbishop John Nienstedt’s hand of blessing rather than the eucharist.