Feedback Regarding WR

Posted on October 25, 2013
Posted in Web Site Feedback

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Licari, Ward linked to Twin Cities Church Scandal

Posted on October 24, 2013
Posted in Dan Ward, Harry Flynn, John Bussman, Jonathan Licari, Kevin McDonough

Two monks from Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA), Father Jonathan Licari and Father Dan Ward, have been linked to the sexual abuse scandal at the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

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Leave a porch light on for Jacob Wetterling

Posted on October 22, 2013
Posted in Jacob Wetterling

The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center is asking residents to leave a porch light on Tuesday in honor of Wetterling, who went missing 24 years ago.

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Timothy Backous… Health Issues

Posted on October 20, 2013
Posted in Tim Backous

According to the October 13, 2013 Immaculate Heart of Mary bulletin [ View ]:

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Flynn, Abbey Silent on Bik’s Abuse for Eight Years

Posted on October 19, 2013
Posted in Harry Flynn, John Klassen, Michael Bik, Review Board

Archbishop Harry Flynn,  Abbot Timothy Kelly and Abbot John Klassen all knew of sexual abuse by Father Michael Bik long before the abuse was finally made public in 2006.

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Father Licari Lied to Victim, Covered Up Abuse

Posted on October 13, 2013
Posted in Dominic Keller, Jonathan Licari

There have been other credible allegations against Fr. Dominic and his name will be added to the list of other monks with credible allegations against them. We are in the process of up-dating our web-site and it may take until the end of the summer before his name appears but it will be added. – Father Jonathan Licari (2011)

[Webmaster’s Note: Fr. Dominic Keller’s name was never made public on the abbey’s web site. Father Jonathan Licari is currently headmaster at Saint John’s Prep School.]

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Multiple, Credible Allegations against Abbey Monk

Posted on October 13, 2013
Posted in Dominic Keller, John Klassen, Jonathan Licari

In a June of 2011, Father Jonathan Licari wrote to a victim of sexual abuse:

“There have been other credible allegations against Fr. Dominic and his name will be added to the list of other monks with credible allegations against them. We are in the process of up-dating our web-site and it may take until the end of the summer before his name appears but it will be added.”

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Meet Father Jonathan Licari, OSB

Posted on October 13, 2013
Posted in Jonathan Licari

Father Jonathan Licari, OSB
Timeline & Information

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Recent Tips & The Real Trail

Posted on October 11, 2013
Posted in Andre Bennett, Bruce Wollmering, Finian McDonald, Phil Harrer, Robert Blumeyer

Web Site Visitors…. Thank you for the recent tips regarding Father Phil Harrer, Father Bruce Wollmering, Father Finian McDonald, Father Andre Bennett,  and Father Robert Blumeyer.

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Administrative History – Saint John’s Prep

Posted on October 11, 2013
Posted in Gordon Tavis, Jonathan Licari, Linus Aschman, Phil Harrer, Tom Andert

* Denotes Accused of Misconduct with a Minor

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Demands grow to see secret list of Minnesota priests accused of abuse

Posted on October 9, 2013
Posted in Aelred Senna, David Clohessy, James Porter, Jeff Anderson, Pat Marker, Patrick Wall, Terence McKiernan

(StarTribune.com)  Sometimes lists are posted online and then disappear. Such was the case with St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville. In the spring of 2011, the abbey became the first religious order in Minnesota to publicly release a list of monks who were credibly accused of sexual abuse. Digital publication of the list was part of a settlement of clergy abuse lawsuits. But the list disappeared from the abbey’s website in the summer of 2012…

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The Silence

Posted on September 25, 2013
Posted in Donald Kettler

Since 2002 [Bishop Donald Kettler] has served as bishop under the Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks. As part of the diocese’s legal settlement with sexual abuse survivors, Kettler traveled to the villages of St. Michael and Stebbins in December 2010 to apologize on behalf of the church.

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Newly appointed St. Cloud bishop spent years in Alaska dealing with past clergy abuse

Posted on September 24, 2013
Posted in Donald Kettler, John Kinney, John Klassen, SNAP

A bishop who has spent recent years in Alaska dealing with the repercussions of decades-old clergy sexual abuse has been appointed to lead the Diocese of St. Cloud.

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New leader of St. Cloud diocese feels he’s coming home

Posted on September 20, 2013
Posted in Donald Kettler, John Klassen

Kettler occasionally visited St. John’s seminary, where he met Abbot John Klassen of St. John’s Abbey “on a number of occasions.” Klassen finds Kettler “open, flexible, pastoral.” They’d talk about faith, but also about the “very down-to-earth, practical realities” of managing a large diocese, Klassen said.

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New Bishop Kettler happy to be back in Minnesota

Posted on September 20, 2013
Posted in Donald Kettler

The new bishop of the Diocese of St. Cloud told the media and diocese employees at a news conference Friday morning that he is happy to be back in Minnesota.

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My Alma Mater in a New Light

Posted on September 15, 2013
Posted in Denis McDonough, John Gagliardi

My alma mater, Saint John’s University — not the one in bustling Queens, New York run by the Vincentians, but the one in bucolic Collegeville, Minnesota run by the Benedictines — is widely known for several things.

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Convicted murderer Reinaldo Rivera files appeal

Posted on September 13, 2013
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Reinaldo Rivera

schulte_pr[Webmaster’s Note: Rev. Francisco Schulte (left) should step forward, tell the truth, and offer to testify in this matter.]

Convicted murderer Reinaldo Rivera files appeal…

Convicted serial killer and death row inmate Reinaldo Rivera has begun his last round of appeals.

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(SC Times) Values ring hollow with no details from school

Posted on August 7, 2013
Posted in 2013 Reunion, John Klassen, Opinion, Pat Marker

(SC Times) We’re sorry we kicked you out, but you still can’t come back here for a year.

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Father Timothy Backous Joins Essentia Health

Posted on August 7, 2013
Posted in Tim Backous

Father Timothy Backous, OSB, has been appointed Essentia Health’s Vice President of Mission Integration and Benedictine Sponsorship.

Father Tim will focus the majority of his time on the Catholic hospitals of the Twin Ports, but also will support and coordinate with Essentia’s other Benedictine-sponsored facilities across the health system.

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(SC Times) St. John’s Prep issues apology to Marker

Posted on August 3, 2013
Posted in 2013 Reunion, John Klassen, Jonathan Licari, Pat Marker

(SC Times) COLLEGEVILLE — St. John’s Preparatory School has apologized to an alumnus who was kicked off campus during a class reunion and his classmates.

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