More Deception from St. John’s Abbey [re Schulte]

Posted on May 19, 2010
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Bahamas, Francisco Schulte, Jerome Thiesen, John Klassen, Joshua Guimond, Puerto Rico, Robert Blumeyer, San Antonio Abad

At least four claims made in the St. John’s Abbey “Statement on Father Francisco Schulte” (May 18, 2010) [ View ] are blatantly false or contradict other statements made by the Abbey:

Read More

Alleged Sexual Abuse Victim Sues St. John’s Abbey (w/ Video)

Posted on May 19, 2010
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Brennan Maiers, Bruce Wollmering, Dan Ward, Dunstan Moorse, Finian McDonald, Fran Hoefgen, Francisco Schulte, Isaac Connolly, Jim Phillips, John Kelly, Jonathan Licari, Meet the Monks, Michael Bik, Pat Marker, Richard Eckroth, Thomas Gillespie, Tim Backous, Tom Andert

(Fox 9) ST. PAUL, Minn. – A man who says he was sexually abused by an instructor at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville is filing a Ramsey County lawsuit against the school, the religious order of monks that runs it, and his alleged abuser.
Read More

Website sheds light on abbey history

Posted on May 19, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson, Pat Marker, Review Board

(SC Times) The former St. John’s Prep School student had occasionally tried to find information about the Rev. Francisco Schulte in the years since he was an altar boy at a North Carolina church where Schulte had once served.
Read More

NC brothers claim abuse by monk, sue Minn. order (w/ Video)

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson

(KMSP 5) Two brothers who say they were sexually abused by a priest affiliated with a Minnesota abbey filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the religious order that runs the abbey and its preparatory school, as well as their alleged abuser.
Read More

Lawsuit alleging sexual abuse filed against St. John’s Prep (w/ Video)

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson

(KARE 11) ST. PAUL, Minn. — A man who says he was sexually abused by an instructor at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville has filed a lawsuit against the school, the religious order of monks that runs it, and his alleged abuser.
Read More

Jeff Anderson targets St. John’s, monk in latest sex abuse lawsuit

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson

(citypages.com) Jeff Anderson, the St. Paul attorney who has cut a wide swath of controversy as he files lawsuits against alleged sexually abusive priests in the Catholic Church all over the world, has now trained his sites on the monks of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville.
Read More

St. John’s Abbey faces new abuse suit

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson, Pat Marker, Restricted List

(Star Tribune) St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., broke its promise that a monk accused of sexually abusing a 12- and a 14-year-old boy would be barred from working with children, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Ramsey County Court alleges.
Read More

NC brothers claim abuse by monk, sue Minn. order

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson, Jerome Thiesen, John Klassen, Pat Marker, Paul Richards, Restricted List

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two brothers who say they were sexually abused by a priest affiliated with a Minnesota abbey filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the religious order that runs the abbey and its preparatory school, as well as their alleged abuser.
Read More

Abbey Statement on Father Francisco Schulte

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Bahamas, BS, Francisco Schulte, Jerome Thiesen, John Klassen, Mexico, Sant' Anselmo Monastery, SG, St. John's Prep

From that time through June of 2002, Father Francisco was living at Saint John’s Abbey with “prudent, non-risk” limitations on his ministry.

Read More

Schulte Complaint

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte

The complaint filed today is now available.
Read More

Alleged abuse victim sues St. John’s Abbey

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Jeff Anderson

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A man who says he was sexually abused by an instructor at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville is filing a Ramsey County lawsuit against the school, the religious order of monks that runs it, and his alleged abuser.
Read More

Former Prep School student sues school, monk, abbey

Posted on May 18, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Mexico, Puerto Rico

A former St. John’s Prep student is suing the school, a monk who used to teach at the school and the Order of St. Benedict and St. John’s Abbey, alleging a cover-up of sexual abuse.

Read More

Press Conference Scheduled

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted in Bahamas, Dan Ward, Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson, John Klassen, Monk Travel, Pat Marker, Patrick Noaker, Pedophilia, Puerto Rico, Restricted List, Review Board, Rome, Sacro Speco, San Antonio Abad, Sant' Anselmo Monastery

Announcement of a lawsuit to be filed on Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court against Collegeville, Minnesota-based St. John’s Preparatory School, St, John’s Abbey, the Order of St. Benedict and Father Raymond Francisco Schulte, a minister at the school. The lawsuit stems from the alleged recruiting, grooming and subsequent sexual abuse and exploitation of two minor students (aged 12 and 14) by Father Schulte between 1984 and 1986 in North Carolina and Minnesota. Read More

Pedophile

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Pedophilia

  
Read More

PARTE DE PRENSA

Posted on May 17, 2010
Posted in Bahamas, Dan Ward, Francisco Schulte, Jeff Anderson, John Klassen, Monk Travel, Pat Marker, Patrick Noaker, Pedophilia, Puerto Rico, Restricted List, Review Board, Rome, Sacro Speco, San Antonio Abad, Sant' Anselmo Monastery

POR QUE: Ess el anuncio de una demanda por radicarse el martes en el
juzgado del Distrito del Condado Ramsey contra St. John’s Preparatory
School en Collegeville, Minnesota, la St. John’s Abbey, la Order of
St. Benedict y el padre Raymond Francisco Schulte, anteriormente
profesor y pastor en dicha escuela. Read More

Pedophilia

Posted on May 15, 2010
Posted in Pedophilia

Some pedophiles limit their behaviors to exposing themselves or masturbating in front of the child, or fondling or undressing the child, but without genital contact. Others, however, compel the child to participate in oral sex or full genital intercourse.

Read More

Fr. Dan Ward on Documenting Abuse Allegations

Posted on May 14, 2010
Posted in Bahamas, Dan Ward

An abbot receives information from a victim that a monk sexually abused him while attending the monastery’s school. When the abbot confronts the monk, the monk admits the abuse along with some other instances of abuse. The entire situation, including a lawsuit, is handled confidentially. Not even the community knows about the sexual abuse. Does the abbot document all of this for his successor?
Read More

Restricted Monk Removes Facebook Page

Posted on May 13, 2010
Posted in Isaac Connolly, Publications, Restricted List, Review Board, Tom Andert

Br. Isaac Connolly, a monk at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN recently took down his Facebook page [ Link ] after it was featured in the new “Meet the Monks” section on the Behind the Pine Curtain web site ( http://www.behindthepinecurtain.com ). The Facebook account was public for over three months.
Read More

St. John’s Abbey Culture

Posted on May 11, 2010
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Richard Eckroth, Richard Sipe

For decades, a group of monks at St. John’s Abbey operated a sex abuse ring. Boys as young as 9 were victimized, as were teenage boys and girls. But most of the victims were novice monks – high school and college graduates who were drawn to the discipline of monastic life, which consists of prayer, study, teaching and living in a religious community of like-minded men. Read More

Meet the Monks at St. John’s Abbey

Posted on May 5, 2010
Posted in Meet the Monks, Restricted List

The ”Meet the Monks” section of this web site lists 734 monks professed at Saint John’s Abbey between 1950 & 2012.  The list serves as a resource to the public, and allows victims to find their perpetrator’s name, or the name of the monk to whom they reported the misconduct, or the monk who counseled them, or the monk that told them to stay quiet. The goal has always been full disclosure and victim outreach. [ More ]

Example: In 2008, a victim found Father Othmar Hohmann’s name via this web site and shared a bit of her story. In 2010, a second victim shared [ View ]. Father Hohmann’s misconduct with multiple victims was reported to the abbey in July of 2010 [ View ] and to the diocese of Saint Cloud in December of 2012. Hohmann’s abuse was finally publicly acknowledged by the abbey on December 9, 2013  [ View ]. It is unknown how long the abbey and/or diocese have been aware of Hohmann’s abuse.

Read More