{"id":6122,"date":"2012-11-08T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T03:53:53","slug":"abbey-now-admits-to-23-monk-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/abbey-now-admits-to-23-monk-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbey Now Admits to 23 Monk Perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint John’s Abbey quietly admitted, via a revamped web site in the summer of 2012, that at least 23 members of its community had\u00a0been credibly accused of sexual abuse or misconduct.<\/p>\n

23 Members “Credibly Accused”<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the abbey’s web site\u00a0(from 2012):<\/p>\n

“rigorous investigations deemed that allegations of sexual abuse or misconduct* against 23 members of the Abbey were credible.”
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a screen shot:<\/p>\n

\"20121108_Abbey_Lists_23\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Interestingly, on the web page (formerly entitled “transparency.html” by the way) the abbey fails to provide the names of the 23 monk offenders.<\/p>\n

The reference to “23 members” on the abbey’s web site has been removed.<\/p>\n

April, 2011 Letter<\/strong><\/p>\n

The abbey web site also no longer provides a copy of the letter that it claims was sent to all Saint John’s alum in April of 2011. \u00a0As part of the April, 2011 settlement, that letter was to be posted on the abbey\u2019s web site\u00a0[ View<\/a> ].<\/p>\n

The April, 2011 letter from Abbot John Klassen [ View<\/a>\u00a0] provided the names of eighteen credibly accused monk offenders:<\/p>\n

Brother Andre Bennett
\nBrother Isaac Connolly
\nFather Richard Eckroth
\nFather Thomas Gillespie
\nBrother John Kelly
\nFather Brennan Maiers
\nFather Dunstan Moorse
\nFather Francisco Schulte
\nFather Bruce Wollmering
\nFather Michael Bik
\nFather Cosmas Dahlheimer
\nAbbot John Eidenschink
\nFather Fran Hoefgen
\nBrother Steven Lilly
\nFather Finian McDonald
\nBrother Jim Phillips
\nFather Allen Tarlton
\nFather James Kelly<\/p>\n

Who Else?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which of the following credibly accused monks [ View<\/a> ] make up the other five on the abbey’s new list of twenty-three?<\/p>\n

Father\u00a0Tom Andert
\nFather\u00a0Daniel Ward
\nFather\u00a0Mel Taylor
\nBrother Robert Burke
\nFather\u00a0Howard Oak Mossier
\nFather\u00a0Agustine Cerezo Murillo
\nFather\u00a0Peregrin Berres
\nFather\u00a0Robert Blumeyer
\nFather\u00a0Mathias Faue
\nFather\u00a0Othmar Hohmann
\nAbbot Timothy Kelly
\nBrother\u00a0Paschal Brisson
\nFather\u00a0Dominic Keller
\nFather Timothy Backous
\nFather Jonathan Licari<\/p>\n

Posted November 8, 2012
\nUpdated November 30, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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