Lawsuit details abuse of altar boy by former St. John’s abbot

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Michael Ford, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

A.W. Richard Sipe, a former monk at St. John’s who has worked on numerous cases of clergy sex abuse nationwide, said at a news conference Tuesday that he spoke to the man who is alleging the abuse and that there were “four to 12 other students” who were friends of the man who also had been sexually abused at St. Anselm’s.

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New York man sues St. John’s Abbey

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in ISTI, Jeff Anderson, Paul Richards, Timothy Kelly

(Star Tribune) A New York man is suing St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict in Collegeville, Minn., alleging a former abbot sexually abused him decades ago at a Bronx church.

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Saint John’s Abbey Statement Regarding Abbot Timothy Kelly

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in PR Machine, Timothy Kelly

The Abbey was saddened and shocked to learn of allegations of sexual abuse in the mid-60s against one of its deceased members, Abbot Timothy Kelly. In accordance with its Policy, Saint John’s Abbey has begun an investigation of the accusation.

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Former St. John’s abbot accused of molesting NY teen in ’60s

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

(MPR) St. Paul, Minn. — A New York man says a former abbot at Minnesota’s St. John’s Abbey sexually abused him decades ago while he was a parish priest in the Bronx. The Rev. Timothy Kelly later went on to found a service organization meant to help victims of sexual abuse by clergy.

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New York man sues St. John’s Abbey

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in ISTI, Jeff Anderson, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

(AP) ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two former monks at St. John’s Abbey say the monastery fosters a culture of sexual secrecy that comes from the top. Patrick Wall and Richard Sipe joined St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson on Tuesday to announce a lawsuit alleging a former abbot at St. John’s, Timothy Kelly, abused an altar boy when he was a priest at a church in New York in the 1960s.

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Former altar boy accuses Abbot Timothy Kelly of abuse

Posted on June 6, 2011
Posted in Patrick Wall, Timothy Kelly

(SC Times) A New York man is suing St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict, accusing former Abbot Timothy Kelly of sexually abusing him in 1966 when the man was an altar boy and when Kelly was associate pastor at St. Anselm’s Church in the Bronx.

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New Lawsuit says Former St. John’s Abbot Timothy Kelly abused altar boy in 1966

Posted on June 6, 2011
Posted in ISTI, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

Media Advisory/News Conference
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 12:30

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Timeline & Quotes: Timothy Kelly

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Bahamas, Colegio del Tepeyac, Dan Ward, Dietrich Reinhart, Francisco Schulte, ISTI, Jerome Hanus, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, Richard Eckroth, Richard Sipe, Thomas Gillespie, Timothy Kelly, Tom Andert

April 20, 1934 – Thomas Daniel Kelly born in Milwaukee, WI

Grades 1 – 6: Public Schools in Minneapolis, MN
Grades 7 & 8: Annunciation Parish School in Minneapolis, MN
High School: St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, MN
College: St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN

1954: Enters novitiate at St. John’s Abbey

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Fr. Schulte

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Timothy Kelly

St. John’s Abbey publications and newspaper articles from the 1990s on contradict the abbey’s own statement about the whereabouts and work history of the Rev. Francisco Schulte after the abbey received an allegation of sexual misconduct against him.

 

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Fr. Gillespie

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Dan Ward, John Klassen, Thomas Gillespie, Timothy Kelly

[Update: On November 24, 2015, files were released with information about this matter. Please view the update… Here ]

When Fr. Thomas Gillespie was yanked from the Catholic church in Saint Joseph, Minnesota on February 23, 1996, replacement priest Fr. Dan Ward and Abbot Timothy Kelly refused to provide an honest answer — the real reason — for Fr. Gillespie’s removal.

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Fr. Dan Ward

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Dan Ward, Timothy Kelly

When I reported the misconduct by Fr. Dan Ward to Abbot Timothy Kelly he listened but then dismissed me saying I was over exaggerating and it would all pass by… I could not believe this. I was consoled by another monk at the time and he had told me that Abbot Kelly had known about Fr. Ward from a previous case and had done nothing about it.

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Archabbot Nowicki

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Douglas Nowicki, Timothy Kelly

Abbot Timothy Kelly, in his capacity president of the American-Cassinese Congregation, was complicit in the cover-up of allegations of sexual misconduct made against Archabbot Douglas Nowicki of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, when the allegations reported to Abbot Timothy Kelly were not properly investigated or dealt with in an appropriate manner.

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Same old spin on sex abuse by priests

Posted on May 27, 2011
Posted in John Jay Study

A newly issued report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops would have Americans believe that the so-called lax cultural mores of the 1960s and 1970s are largely to blame for the sexual abuse of thousands of children and teens at the hands of priests.

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Why people stick by scandal-plagued pastors

Posted on May 27, 2011
Posted in Reading List

(CNN) — The streets that were once choked with traffic are now bare. The church’s sprawling parking lot is half full. Inside the stylish sanctuary, ushers sway to choir music in front of empty seats.

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Victim Remembers Fr. Othmar Hohmann

Posted on May 25, 2011
Posted in Othmar Hohmann, St. Joseph Parish

Fr. Othmar Hohmann would make his rounds, visiting St. Joseph Parish families on, I believe, Sunday afternoons. When he was to come we kids were told to be on best behavior and we girls were to dress up in the short frilly dresses of the time. Othmar was seated in the living room. My parents would be in the adjacent room, the kitchen, getting the coffee and cookies, and astonishingly, with them that close by, he would grab me and pull me up onto his lap and deftly put his fingers up the leg hole of my panties and fondle and grope, carrying on all the time as if nothing was happening; he was so quick and expert at it and it was so confusing because he was so brazen with my parents just in the next room within earshot so I’d think it was all okay with them, it must have been, otherwise how could he have done it so brazenly? Surely they knew and approved! I was six years old at this time and we had just moved to St Joe from St Cloud.

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Koopmann’s Letter

Posted on May 25, 2011
Posted in Robert Koopmann

The past two years have been very challenging for institutions of higher education and for Saint John’s as well. In spite of many challenges, there have been some very positive developments during the first two years of my administration.

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SJU’s Koopmann will serve single term as president

Posted on May 25, 2011
Posted in Dennis Beach, Robert Koopmann, Tim Backous

(SC TImes) The Rev. Robert Koopmann will not seek a second term as president of St. John’s University, he announced today.

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Visiting Monk: Rev. Michael Brunovsky, OSB

Posted on May 21, 2011
Posted in Michael Brunovsky, Visiting Clergy/Professors, Visiting Monk/Priest

Name: Rev. Michael Brunovsky, OSB
Allegation Type: Sexual Misconduct
Date: 1990-1991 School Year
Location: St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN

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Sex Offender’s Art on Display in St. Joseph Church

Posted on May 20, 2011
Posted in Dunstan Moorse, Lee Eisenschenk, St. Joseph Parish

“The large candle next to the baptismal font is the Paschal (Easter) candle. It is first lit at the Easter Vigil and it represents Jesus Christ “our light.” It is lit during the Easter season, and for the celebration of baptisms, weddings, and funerals.”

 

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Saint John’s Abbey Senior Council Members (2003)

Posted on May 19, 2011
Posted in Benedict Leuthner, Geoffrey Fecht, Hilary Thimmesh, Ken Kroeker, Otto Thole, Raymond Pedrizetti, Robin Pierzina, Roger Botz, Roman Paur, Senior Council, Simeon Thole, Tom Andert

Below is the most recent list of the Saint John’s Abbey Senior Council members. The council’s role is similar to that of a board of directors to a corporation.

Fr. Tom Andert: Born 1947 in Saint Paul, entered the monastery in 1967, ordained in 1975. Masters in educational administration. Served as President at Benilde-Saint Margaret’s for six years and Headmaster of the Prep School for six years. Presently a member of the Education Department of CSB/SJU and faculty resident at SJU.

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