Category Archives: Jim Accurso

Letter to Catholic Church officials calls for Father Timothy Backous’ removal from ministry

Posted on June 11, 2014
Posted in Jim Accurso, John Klassen, Tim Backous

(City Pages) In March, two top Catholic Church officials in Minnesota sat down with the editorial board of the St. Cloud Times to discuss the ongoing clergy sex abuse scandal. Bishop Donald Kettler of the St. Cloud Diocese and Abbot … Continue reading →

Family accuses Ex-St. John’s Prep headmaster of abuse

Posted on June 10, 2014
Posted in Aelred Senna, Jim Accurso, John Klassen, Tim Backous

(SC Times) St. John’s Abbey Abbot John Klassen on Tuesday called allegations of inappropriate sexual contact by a former St. John’s Prep School headmaster against a former member of the St. John’s Boys’ Choir unsubstantiated and defended his integrity and … Continue reading →

Releasing names of priests accused of abuse will not end pressure on church

Posted on December 8, 2013
Posted in David Clohessy, Jim Accurso, Michael Bik, Mike Finnegan, Pat Marker, Robert Blumeyer, Thomas Gillespie

(Star Tribune) The naming Thursday of 32 priests accused of child sex abuse in the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese will not end the pressure on the Catholic Church in Minnesota.

Minnetonka priest’s tenant is ex-priest who abused teen

Posted on November 20, 2013
Posted in David Ostrowski, Fran Hoefgen, Jim Accurso

A Catholic priest in Minnetonka who told his parishioners two weeks ago that the church needs to rid itself of priests involved in sexual misconduct and “hold those who covered it up very much accountable” has been renting his townhouse … Continue reading →

Clergy Misconduct Lawsuit Targets St. John’s Abbey (Video)

Posted on November 20, 2013
Posted in Aelred Senna, Fran Hoefgen, Jeff Anderson, Jim Accurso

(KARE 11) In his latest John Doe sex abuse lawsuit, attorney Jeffrey Anderson targets a former Twin Cities priest and the order he belonged to until 2011, based at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville.

Ex-Hastings priest living in Anoka County named in abuse suit

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Aelred Senna, David Ostrowski, Fran Hoefgen, Jeff Anderson, Jim Accurso, St. Luke's

(Pioneer Press) A former Hastings priest and St. John’s Abbey are among defendants in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a Minnesota man who alleges the priest sexually abused him after “graduating” from a sex-offender treatment facility.