Category Archives: Kevin McDonough

Suits allege St. John’s Abbey monk abused 2 ‘cabin kids’

Posted on May 19, 2014
Posted in Cosmas Dahlheimer, Harry Flynn, Jeff Anderson, Kevin McDonough, Patrick Wall, Richard Eckroth, Thomas Gillespie

(StarTribune) The clergy sex abuse lawsuit against the Twin Cities archdiocese headed northwest Monday, when documents related to child abuse by five monks at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., were released and a lawsuit was filed to pry open … Continue reading →

How Patrick Wall became the Catholic church’s worst nightmare

Posted on March 19, 2014
Posted in John Nienstedt, Kevin McDonough, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Thomas Doyle

Patrick Wall flips through a six-inch-thick binder in a law office that once housed a confessional booth. He’s got whole boxes yet to comb through, each containing several decades’ worth of internal church memos, affidavits, and police reports.

Tevlin: The Catholic Church’s long, weird week

Posted on December 17, 2013
Posted in Aelred Senna, John Nienstedt, Kevin McDonough, Pat Marker, Peter Sullivan

Patrick Marker has run a website dedicated to exposing abusive priests and offering a platform for victims for more than 10 years, so he’s used to getting mail.

Licari, Ward linked to Twin Cities Church Scandal

Posted on October 24, 2013
Posted in Dan Ward, Harry Flynn, John Bussman, Jonathan Licari, Kevin McDonough

Two monks from Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA), Father Jonathan Licari and Father Dan Ward, have been linked to the sexual abuse scandal at the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Msgr. Jerome Boxleitner (Updated)

Posted on March 16, 2013
Posted in Harry Flynn, Jerome Boxleitner, John Nienstedt, John Roach, Kevin McDonough, Mike O'Connell

[Updated March 18, 2013 @ 11:01pm] This past Sunday, I had a conversation with a victim of sexual abuse perpetrated by Msgr. Jerome Boxleitner.  Boxleitner is not a monk from St. John’s but his name appears on this web site. Officials … Continue reading →

Anderson campaigns to publish names of alleged abusive priests

Posted on January 31, 2012
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Kevin McDonough, Terence McKiernan

St. Cloud, Minn. — For at least the last 10 years, Catholic dioceses across the country have created lists of priests credibly accused of sexual misconduct.