Category Archives: St. Luke’s

Rev. Anthony Ruff Still on SJU Staff

Posted on May 1, 2015
Posted in Anthony Ruff, John Klassen, National Catholic Youth Choir, Paul Richards, St. Luke's

Father Anthony Ruff remains on the staff at St. John’s University [ Link ] despite credible allegations of sexual misconduct and retaliation, after which he was sent to the Saint Luke Institute in Maryland for more than one year. Father Anthony Ruff also remains … Continue reading →

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.

Saint Luke Institute (1978 Brochure)

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in St. Luke's

Saint Luke Institute (1978 Brochure)

Archdiocese Facing New Allegations Of Priest Abuse

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, Jeff Anderson, St. Luke's

(WCCO/AP) — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is facing new accusations of child sexual abuse by a priest.

Lawsuit accuses St. John’s Abbey priest of sexually abusing Hastings boy

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, Jeff Anderson, Patrick Wall, St. Luke's

(SC Times) A civil lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses a former St. John’s Abbey priest of sexually abusing a child at a Hastings parish where he was assigned after his superiors knew he had sexually abused a boy in Cold Spring.

Suit says St. Luke clergy treatment center failed to protect victims

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, Jeff Anderson, John Kinney, Patrick Wall, St. Luke's

(Star Tribune) Lawyers filed suit Tuesday morning in St. Paul against a Catholic-run treatment facility that cared for an abusive priest who then was sent to a new parish where he allegedly targeted a 10-year-old boy for years of repeated … Continue reading →

Lawsuit: St. John’s priest admitted abuse

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, St. Luke's

ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) – A Minnesota man filed a lawsuit Tuesday against St. John’s Abbey, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the St. Luke Institute, alleging they should have known the priest who abused him was a … Continue reading →

Saint Luke Institute, Priest Named

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, St. Luke's

(KSTP) There’s another lawsuit against the Catholic Church over more sexual abuse claims.

Fr. Allen Tarlton… Abbot Theisen Knew in 1979

Posted on June 19, 2010
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Jerome Thiesen, St. Luke's

We received documents this evening showing that, in 1993, Abbot Jerome Theisen claimed that Fr. Otto Weber reported abuse by Fr. Allen Tarlton in 1979.

What they knew in 1985

Posted on May 17, 2002
Posted in 1985 Abuse Meeting, Harry Flynn, Jason Berry, St. Luke's, Thomas Doyle

As attorneys across the nation press countless clergy sex abuse cases against the church, two critical questions they most often ask are: “What did the bishop know?” and “When did he know it?” At stake is episcopal culpability. Also at … Continue reading →

St. John’s Abbey let priests keep post after allegation

Posted on May 15, 2002
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Bahamas, Jeff Anderson, Jerome Thiesen, Monk Travel, Richard Eckroth, St. Luke's, Timothy Kelly

St. John’s Abbey was told in the late 1980s that the Rev. Richard Eckroth had allegedly sexually abused a boy years earlier.