Category Archives: Robert Blumeyer

Abbey names 3 more accused abusers

Posted on August 2, 2006
Posted in Bruce Wollmering, John Klassen, Michael Bik, Project Pathfinders, Review Board, Robert Blumeyer, SNAP, William Skudlarek

The names have been added to the list of St. John’s Abbey clerics who have faced allegations of sexual abuse recently or in the more distant past. The names of three priests accused of sexual misconduct, primarily in the 1970s … Continue reading →

3 named in abuse allegations

Posted on July 29, 2006
Posted in Bruce Wollmering, John Klassen, Michael Bik, Project Pathfinders, Review Board, Robert Blumeyer, St. John's Prep, William Skudlarek

COLLEGEVILLE – New allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced Friday against three members of the St. John’s monastic community. The Revs. Michael Bik, Bruce Wollmering and the late Rev. Robert Blumeyer were named in a statement by the abbey based on … Continue reading →

Abbey Press Release

Posted on July 28, 2006
Posted in Bruce Wollmering, David Baraga, John Klassen, Michael Bik, Project Pathfinders, Review Board, Robert Blumeyer, Senior Council

COLLEGEVILLE, MN – Saint John’s Abbey’s External Review Board, established in 2003 as part of Saint John’s Abbey’s response to allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its members, has submitted its annual report to Abbot John Klassen, OSB, and … Continue reading →

Abbey: Please Report Abuse

Posted on May 25, 2006
Posted in John Klassen, Robert Blumeyer, William Skudlarek

St. John’s Abbey is asking those who have been victimized by a former St. Cloud pastor to come forward after last year’s revelations of sexual abuse in the St. Cloud diocese.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Bulletin

Posted on May 7, 2006
Posted in Harry Flynn, John Klassen, Robert Blumeyer

The following is a statement from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and St. John’s Abbey, dated April 27, 2006. In September, 2005, a 50-year-old man informed the Victim Advocate of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis that … Continue reading →

Abuser monks out of the ministry, still in jobs

Posted on June 20, 2002
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Andre Bennett, Brennan Maiers, Bruce Wollmering, Cosmas Dahlheimer, Dunstan Moorse, Finian McDonald, Fran Hoefgen, Francisco Schulte, Isaac Connolly, Jim Phillips, John Kelly, John Klassen, Monk Travel, Richard Eckroth, Robert Blumeyer, Thomas Gillespie, Tom Andert

Minnesota’s Catholic bishops returned from Dallas with an explicit mandate to deal with sex abusers in the clergy. The “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” binds bishops around the country to the same “one-strike” policy.

Fr. Robert Blumeyer Obituary

Posted on October 6, 1983
Posted in Obituary, Robert Blumeyer

Fr. Robert BIumeyer, who entered our community in 1949, died on 5 October. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1956, the centenary year of our early monks’ arrival in Minnesota. Shortly thereafter he was assigned to the parochial ministry, … Continue reading →