Licari’s Letter to Community

Posted on October 22, 1992
Posted in Jonathan Licari, Letters to Community

Office of the Prior
SAINT JOHN’S ABBEY
COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA 56321 U.S.A.

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Another priest from St. John’s Abbey is named in suit alleging sexual abuse

Posted on October 22, 1992
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Brennan Maiers, Dunstan Moorse, John Kelly

Another priest at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., has been accused of sexually abusing a young man who was a student in the prep school in the 1980s.
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Former prep student to file sex abuse suit

Posted on October 20, 1992
Posted in Allen Tarlton

Another lawsuit was expected to be filed today alleging that a monk [Allen Tarlton] sexually abused a student at St. John’s Preparatory School. It will be the fourth such lawsuit against St. John’s Prep in the last 14 months.

Tuesday, October 20, 1992 – St. Cloud Daily Times

How an abbot is elected

Posted on September 23, 1992
Posted in Jerome Thiesen, ToDo

The Rule of Saint Benedict has a lot to say about the spiritual qualifications of an abbot. But this sixth-century guide to monastic life has less to say about the actual election process that will be followed as the monastic community of Saint John’s Abbey begins to consider the successor to newly elected Abbot Primate Jerome Theisen, OSB.

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Bittersweet News

Posted on September 19, 1992
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jerome Thiesen, Jonathan Licari, Sant' Anselmo Monastery

Weather predictions for 19 September warned of the first killing frost of 1992. But abbey members were numbed by other factors, more deeply felt, as well.
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1987 Father Francisco Schulte Incident

Posted on September 4, 1992
Posted in Francisco Schulte

In October of 1987, Schulte Victim #7 went to Fr. Francisco Schulte’s office at the Prep School. The victim left Fr. Schulte’s office after Schulte initiated physical, then sexual contact. Fr. Schulte left the Prep School a few weeks after the incident.
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The Gentlest Giants

Posted on August 31, 1992
Posted in John Gagliardi
[Webmaster’s Note: The following Sports Illustrated article came out in August of 1992, exactly one year after the sexual abuse scandal on campus hit the media. View ]

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1983 Dunstan Moorse Abuse Incident

Posted on August 28, 1992
Posted in Dunstan Moorse

I was a student at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minnesota from the years 1981 until 1985. I received my diploma in 1985. I was a resident at the school and lived on campus in a couple of different dormitory rooms.

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Brother at St. John’s Abbey named in sex abuse lawsuit

Posted on August 27, 1992
Posted in Dan Ward, Jeff Anderson, Jerome Thiesen, John Kelly

A brother at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., has been accused of sexually abusing a young man who was a student in the prep school and St. John’s University in the 1980s.
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1982 Father Allan Tarlton Abuse Incident

Posted on August 26, 1992
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Statements

I attended classes at St. John’s Preparatory School, Collegeville, Minnesota, from September 1981 to May 1983, eventually receiving my diploma in May 1983. I took a literary analysis/writing course (the exact name of the course, I do not recall) taught by Father Allan Tarlton.

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Fr. Anthony Adds British Flavor to Monastery

Posted on April 30, 1992
Posted in Anthony Smithwick, Visiting Clergy/Professors, Visiting Monk/Priest

Every so often in life we are blessed with characters who make part of everyday a bit more interesting. Fr. Anthony Smithwick fits this description perfectly.

[Webmasters Note: While at St. John’s, Smithwick allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with at least two students.]

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Francisco Schulte Warns Student About Father Dunstan Moorse

Posted on April 4, 1992
Posted in Dunstan Moorse, Francisco Schulte

I attended school at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minnesota. I started as a freshman in 1981 and I graduated from St. John’s after completing my senior year in 1985.
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A Bahamas Chronology (Winter, 1991)

Posted on December 15, 1991
Posted in Bahamas

The following selective chronology of key dates in the 100-year history of Saint John’s Benedictines in the Bahamas has been gathered from Upon These Rocks by Father Colman Barry [Collegeville: Saint Johns Abbey Press, 1973] and articles by Fathers Elias Achatz and Silvan Bromenshenkel. – Saint John’s Abbey Quarterly (Winter, 1991)

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Brother at St. John’s Abbey Named

Posted on August 27, 1991
Posted in John Kelly

A brother [Br. John Kelly] at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., has been accused of sexually abusing a young man who was a student in the prep school and St. John’s University in the 1980’s. – August 27, 1991

Priest sexually abused 2 students, suits claim

Posted on August 8, 1991
Posted in Benilde-St. Margaret's, Dunstan Moorse, Jeff Anderson

Lawsuits filed Tuesday in Stearns County District Court claim that a priest who taught religion at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minn., sexually abused two former students.
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Monk Accused of Sex Abuse at St. John’s Prep

Posted on August 7, 1991
Posted in Dunstan Moorse

Two men who allegedly were sexually abused by a priest when they were students at St. John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minn., have sued the priest [Moorse] and the religious group that runs the school.

Pioneer Press – Aug 7, 91
Monk Accused of Sex Abuse at St. John’s Prep

St. John’s priest accused of sex offense

Posted on August 7, 1991
Posted in Dunstan Moorse, St. John's Prep

A St. John’s priest and former religious instructor was accused Tuesday of the “ultimate misuse of power and authority” by sexually abusing two high school students.

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St. John’s priest accused of sex offense
St. Cloud Times
August 7, 1991

Video from 1991 News Broadcast

Posted on August 7, 1991
Posted in Dan Ward, Dunstan Moorse, Jerome Hanus

On August 7, 1991, the sex abuse scandal in Collegeville was made public for the first time when two lawsuits were filed against Fr. Dunstan Moorse (for sexual abuse at St. John’s Preparatory School), St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict. Below is a television news segment from that evening.

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1984 Dunstan Moorse Abuse Incident

Posted on July 27, 1990
Posted in Dunstan Moorse, Linus Aschman, Otto Webber
[Victim] said that he had returned back to the Prep dorms after hours one night during his Junior year [1984]. He was one half hour late. Father Dunstan asked him to sit down so that he could give him some sexual advice.

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Abbey Re-affiliates Bahamas Monastery

Posted on June 15, 1990
Posted in Bahamas

One year shy of 100 years of involvement in the Bahama missions and 23 years after Saint Augustine’s Monastery there became independent, the abbey chapter voted to retum the Bahamas community to the status of monastic dependence on the community here. The vote, taken 4 june, followed a lengthy discussion of all the aspects of re-assuming mission responsibilities in the islands.

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