St. John’s abuse suits settled

Posted on March 28, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, John Klassen, Settlement Information

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — Nine men who filed lawsuits claiming sexual abuse at the hands of monks or priests have reached settlements with St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, the plaintiffs’ attorney said Monday.

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Lawsuit Settlements Reached

Posted on March 28, 2011
Posted in Bruce Wollmering, Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson, Settlement Information

(SC Times) A news conference has been scheduled for this afternoon to announce the settlement of lawsuits brought by nine victims against St. John’s Abbey, St. John’s Preparatory School, the Order of St. Benedict and 11 individual clergy defendants.

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Abbey, Prep Settle Lawsuit

Posted on March 28, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Settlement Information

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KNSI) – A lawsuit settlement was expected to be announced Monday in the case of nine alleged victims of sexual abuse by clergy with Collegeville’s St. John’s Prep School, St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict.

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Settlement Will Name Priests

Posted on March 28, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Settlement Information

(StarTribune) A legal settlement is being announced Monday in St. Paul by several people who contend they were victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy.

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Accusations Against Leftist “Monks”

Posted on March 28, 2011
Posted in Dunstan Moorse, John Eidenschink, John Klassen, Opinion

Saint John’s is a place where you can see a performance of the Vagina Monologues, see modernist architecture, watch pagan ceremonies and see conferences promoting vice of every kind. What you’ll be hard pressed to find is Catholicism, because they haven’t taught much resembling it for years, just enough to fool those donors who might be attached to it, and the occasional Opus Dei member on the board. Just allow us to maintain plausible deniability, that’s all we ask.

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Drama Coach Roger Julkowski

Posted on March 28, 2011
Posted in Roger Julkowski
[My friend] and I first met in High School about 1967. We were both interested in theater and were favorites of the drama coach Roger Julkowski. We spent many a time together up in “the Loft” above the stage or at a some party or other event at “The Farm” in Collegeville. How many actors passed through those doors?

Misconduct, Deception and a Missing Student

Posted on March 26, 2011
Posted in Bruce Wollmering, BS, Dietrich Reinhart, Francisco Schulte, Gar Kellom, Joshua Guimond, Michael Bik, Michele Bachmann, PR Machine, St. John's Bible, St. John's Prep, William Skudlarek

In March of 2003, a flurry of emails circulated around the St. John’s University campus in Collegeville, Minnesota. A month earlier, a student-athlete brought allegations of misconduct against his professor, Father Bruce Wollmering, to the attention of his coach and other officials at Saint John’s University.
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Abbey Files Destroyed?

Posted on March 24, 2011
Posted in Dunstan Moorse, Francisco Schulte, Mel Taylor, Michael Naughton

When reviewed in the early 1990s, the Abbot’s File on Fr. Dunstan Moorse contained 81 items between July, 1972 and April, 1990.

1972-1978: 58 Items in 7 years (8.3 items per year)
1979-1983: 0 Items in 4 years (0.0 items per year)
1984-1990: 23 Items in 7 years (3.3 items per year)

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A Declining Monk Population

Posted on March 24, 2011
Posted in Abbey Statistics, Daniel Morgan, George Wolf

Abbey's Monk Population in DeclineThere is no doubt that the sexual abuse scandal has had an effect on the monk population at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.  The scandal, the coverup and the sexually charged environment within the monastery caused good men to leave, while predators and their enablers remain. At least three former monks said that being pursued by another monk contributed to their decision to leave the abbey.

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Video from 1992 News Broadcast

Posted on March 22, 2011
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Daniel Durken, Dunstan Moorse, Jeff Anderson, John Kelly, St. John's Prep

The Rev. Allen Tarlton has been accused of molesting a young man at least three times in the fall of 1982 while the young man was a student at the prep school. Tarlton was the young man’s counselor, English teacher and confidant, the suit contends. This was the fifth suit in two years against a member of the Order of St. Benedict, the priests and brothers who run St. John’s University, St. John’s Preparatory School and St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.
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Former St. Joseph resident, 75, alleges sexual abuse in 1932 at St. John’s Prep School

Posted on March 22, 2011
Posted in St. John's Prep

A 75-year-old former longtime St. Joseph resident told the Newsleader he was molested 60 years ago by a 40- or 50-year old St. John’s priest who came from a well-established area family and who has since died.

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Time to Eliminate ISTI and FCLR

Posted on March 16, 2011
Posted in Dietrich Reinhart, ISTI, Jerome Hanus, John Klassen, PR Machine, Richard Sipe, Roman Paur, Timothy Kelly

The Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute (“ISTI”) was, and continues to be a public relations tool for St. John’s in Collegeville, Minnesota.  Further, its leadership, including (former) Abbot Timothy Kelly, Br. Dietrich Reinhart, Fr. Roman Paur and (current) Abbot John Klassen have all either been perpetrators of misconduct or allowed others to do so without consequence.

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Liturgical Press Reorganizes, Longtime Employees Lose Jobs

Posted on March 9, 2011
Posted in Aelred Senna, Dunstan Moorse

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Liturgical Press, the 85-year-old publishing house of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, has announced a reorganization that involves the creation of two new market departments and five new positions.
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Francisco Schulte’s Abuse Condo

Posted on March 7, 2011
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeffrey Ingham

Fr. Francisco Schulte OSBIn the mid-80s, Fr. Francisco Schulte, OSB from St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota abused at least two of his victims (including a 12 year old boy) in a condo on Athens Drive in Raleigh, North Carolina. The condo was owned by Fr. Jeffrey Ingham, now Monsignor Jeffrey Ingham, of the Archdiocese of Raleigh, North Carolina (photo below).

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Fr. Anthony Ruff Resigns

Posted on March 7, 2011
Posted in Anthony Ruff, The List
[Webmaster’s Note: We hope that Fr. Anthony Ruff will next turn his attention to the hypocrisy within his own community. However, as one of the compromised/offending monks, we doubt he will. Below is his open letter to bishops in the United States.]

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Anthony Ruff, OSB

Posted on March 7, 2011
Posted in Anthony Ruff, The List

Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John’s Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John’s University School of Theology-Seminary. He is the founder of the National Catholic Youth choir. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the local county jail and the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.

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San Antonio Abad se distancia de abuso sexual

Posted on March 5, 2011
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Oscar Rivera

El hombre, cuya identidad no ha sido revelada, radicó una demanda federal en la que alega que fue molestado sexualmente por Schulte cuando tenía 14 años y que las autoridades del colegio encubrieron su caso y las conductas indebidas de otros 21 miembros, no haciendo nada para evitarlo.

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St. Ben’s Susan Sink Regarding Women Priests

Posted on February 17, 2011
Posted in St. Ben's, St. Benedict's, St. John's Bible, Susan Sink

Today I went to a community Mass presided over by a Roman Catholic woman priest. These are women ordained as priests by male bishops or by women priests who were ordained by male bishops or, increasingly, women bishops. The important thing (to them) is that they retain legitimate succession back through ordained bishops. However, they are not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. A few years ago there was even a pronouncement that the act of being a woman ordained automatically excommunicates both the woman and whoever ordains her. So, officially, she is an excommunicated woman, completely outside the official communion of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Monk Regarding Fr. Dan Ward

Posted on January 25, 2011
Posted in Dan Ward, Daniel Durken, Francisco Schulte, Gordon Tavis, Jim Phillips, John Klassen, Thomas Gillespie

“Dan Ward is a very sick and dangerous man. The monks at Saint John’s Abbey have put him in a powerful position and they will live to regret it! He has hardly ever spent any time living at the Abbey and if you look at his history, SJA have virtually given him an open check book to go out and live his own life. The problem is that he has destroyed other people’s lives along the way!” – Former Monk, St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville

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Remember Fr. Anthony Smithwick?

Posted on January 9, 2011
Posted in Anthony Smithwick, Visiting Clergy/Professors

Fr. Anthony Smithwick was a visiting priest, originally from Cockfosters Benedictine Monastery in North London. Smithwick is the fourth visiting clergy with allegations of misconduct. According to one visiting monk who was reprimanded for misconduct, “I came to St. John’s and I saw a lot of people acting out.”

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