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\u2019s Abbey has begun an investigation of the accusation.<\/p>\n
Saint John’s Abbey Statement<\/strong> Saint John\u2019s Abbey has had a \u201cPolicy on Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation.\u201d Our Policy opens with the following statement:<\/p>\n The monks of Saint John’s Abbey are vowed to a celibate way of life and mutual respect among persons. Saint John’s Abbey views sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by its members to be morally reprehensible.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Abbey has begun an investigation of the accusation. <\/p>\n Saint John\u2019s monastic community continues to extend prayers to all victims of abuse.<\/p>\n Saint John’s Abbey Statement 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\u2019s Abbey has begun an investigation of the accusation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr-machine","category-timothy-kelly","wp-image-borders"],"views":621,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTuesday, June 07, 2011<\/p>\n
\nTuesday, June 07, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"