Letter from Alum: SJU Removed from Will

Posted on October 10, 2012
Posted in Michael Hemesath

Needless to say, we no longer donate money and are not proud to be graduates of SJU.  My parents recently told me that they have removed CSB and SJU from their will.

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Letter to CLSA regarding Dan Ward Investigation

Posted on October 8, 2012
Posted in CLSA, Dan Ward, John Kinney, John Klassen, Sharon Euart
[Webmaster’s Note: Sr. Sharon Euart is the Executive Coordinator of the Canon Law Society of America (CLSA) and serves of Board of Directors of the Resource Center for Religious Institutes (RCRI) where Father Dan Ward, OSB serves as Executive Director. Sr. Sharon Euart did not respond to this letter. Another member of the CLSA, Rita Joyce, did response. Ms. Joyce wrote in an email, “Your email will receive attention after convention. There is nothing that I can do until the program is over.” It is believed that the CLSA allowed Father Dan Ward, OSB — a clergy member under investigation for sexual misconduct — to speak at their convention.]

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Sexual Misconduct in Monastics (Dan Ward)

Posted on October 7, 2012
Posted in Dan Ward

For a monastic, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation involve the abuse of the trust placed in the monastic, which can involve other members of the monastery. Such misconduct is more than a moral issue of abuse because society places a great deal of respect, trust and authority in members of a monastery. Such misconduct can also become an issue involving professional, ministerial integrity.  – Fr. Dan Ward, OSB

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Letter to Michael Hemesath re Sexual Assault

Posted on September 28, 2012
Posted in Johnny Benson, Michael Hemesath
[Webmaster’s Note #1: The following email was sent to Saint John’s University President Michael Hemesath and ten other members of the CSB/SJU community on September 28, 2012. There has been no response. ]

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Father Mel Taylor Back in Ireland

Posted on September 26, 2012
Posted in Mel Taylor

According to a parishioner at the church where Father Mel Taylor was supposed land on September 1, 2012, the “alleged” perpetrating monk is back in Ireland…. tending to an ailing family member.

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A little about the history… [in the Bahamas]

Posted on September 23, 2012
Posted in Mel Taylor, Patrick Pinder, Paul Richards
[Webmaster’s Note: The following text is from the Benedictine Volunteers Bahamas web site [ View ]. Father Mel Taylor left the Bahamas after being confronted at a Nassau church on June 3, 2012 [ View ] after Archbishop Patrick Pinder failed to meet the needs of one of Father Mel Taylor’s alleged victims. Brother Paul Richards recently left the abbey and was removed as abbey spokesperson. According to the parent of a monk at Saint John’s, allegations of misconduct by Brother Paul Richards were discussed with the monks around the time of Richards’ departure. [ View ].

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Alleged assault at CSB/SJU

Posted on September 18, 2012
Posted in Lori Klapperich, Mike Connolly

An alleged sexual assault occurred on the St. John’s University campus between Saturday, Sept. 1 and Sunday, Sept. 2.

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Video of Confrontation in the Bahamas

Posted on August 30, 2012
Posted in Bahamas, Jozef Tomko, Mel Taylor, Patrick Pinder, Theophile Brown

In late December of 2011, [Victim] met with Archbishop Patrick Pinder in the conference room in the chancery at St. Francis Cathedral in Nassau, Bahamas. The meeting was close to an hour in length. [Victim] asked that Pinder bring Father Mel Taylor in for a meeting so that [Victim] could confront Taylor regarding sexual advances, exposures and other inappropriateness perpetrated by Taylor when [Victim] was a novice monk in the early 1990s. [Victim] simply wanted to put the issue to rest.

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Email re Withholding Alumni Donations

Posted on August 23, 2012
Posted in Isaac Connolly, Opinion, Web Site Feedback, Withholding Donations

Good afternoon, I first came across your site a few years ago and found it extremely disturbing. I had Brother Isaac Connelly as my FR freshman year. Though I never experienced anything with him, I can’t say that I was surprised to see him on this list.

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Letters and Statements to the Saint John’s Community

Posted on August 22, 2012
Posted in Dietrich Reinhart, Francisco Schulte, Gordon Tavis, John Klassen, Jonathan Licari, Letters to Community, Timothy Kelly
[Webmaster’s Note: For almost twenty years, the leadership at Saint John’s claims to have written articles and sent letters and emails regarding sexual misconduct to the members of its community. If you are a member of the Saint John’s community, I am interested to know how many of these messages (below) you received and, approximately how many fundraising and other promotional correspondence you received in the past twenty years.]

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Fundraising Court Cases

Posted on August 13, 2012
Posted in Financial Elder Abuse, Predatory Fundraising

As described in an earlier post [ View ] it has been alleged that employees of the Order of Saint Benedict (including St. John’s University and Saint John’s Abbey) engaged in “financial elder abuse” and “predatory fundraising”.

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The LCWR and Rev. Dan Ward

Posted on August 7, 2012
Posted in CMSM, Dan Ward, LCWR, RCRI, RFC

According to the LCWR’s April 2012 newsletter, there has been a “precipitous decline in the number of religious.”

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Another Fictitious Restraining Order

Posted on August 7, 2012
Posted in Gina Gagliardi-Benson, Jim Gagliardi, John Gagliardi, Johnny Benson, Pat Marker

20130807_Letter_to_GinaOn August 7, 2013, an express delivery to Gina Gagliardi-Benson was refused. The letter [ View ] requested that Ms. Gagliardi-Benson provide, by 5pm on August 12, 2013 (today) a copy of the restraining order she claimed was in effect on July 3, 2013 (see below).

 

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Allegations at St. John’s University: Elder Abuse and Predatory Fundraising

Posted on August 6, 2012
Posted in Joelle Casteix, Predatory Fundraising

St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN calls itself a “College of Distinction.” But in courtrooms in California and Minnesota, the Benedictine university also being called a predatory fundraiser and has been slapped with allegations of elder abuse.

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Predatory Fundraising at Saint John’s?

Posted on August 2, 2012
Posted in Daniel Whalen, Denise Holstad, Dietrich Reinhart, Eric Hollas, Gary Stoos, Jim Dwyer, John Young, Mark Brown, Predatory Fundraising, Rob Culligan, Robert Koopmann

Saint John’s is party to legal battles in both the California and Minnesota court systems.

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John Gagliardi on Joe Paterno, Penn State’s NCAA sanctions

Posted on July 24, 2012
Posted in Joe Paterno, John Gagliardi

Perhaps the best perspective on the demise of Joe Paterno’s legacy is the one held by another college football coaching legend.

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Gagliardi on Paterno: ‘He made a horrible mistake’

Posted on July 24, 2012
Posted in Joe Paterno, John Gagliardi

Until the scandal that rocked Penn State, St. John’s football coach John Gagliardi often talked about how much he respected Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno and his storied football program.

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Matthew Feeney Slipped Through Their Fingers.

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Matthew Feeney, Opinion

The truth is Stearns County failed our children as well as the child in Massachusetts . Had they done their jobs 20 years ago this man may still be behind bars. At the very least he would still be a Registered Sex Offender and unable to be in the position to reoffend.

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Lawsuit claims St. John’s Abbey knew of sexual abuse in 1958

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Jeff Anderson

A lawsuit filed today against St. John’s Abbey accuses the religious order of knowing about sexual abuse allegations against a member of the order as far back as 1958, yet letting him teach at St. John’s until 1990.

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New sexual abuse lawsuit filed against St. John’s Prep

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Jerome Thiesen

– New sexual abuse lawsuit filed against St. John’s Prep
– Former student claims the School and St. John’s Abbey allowed known offender to mentor and abuse him in 1980’s
– Father Gilbert Tarlton had long history of sexual misconduct

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