Klassen to Speak on Benedictine Legacy

Posted on May 10, 2014
Posted in John Klassen

The Benedictine Sisters of Annunciation Monastery, Bismarck, will host the fifth annual sponsorship formation event on May 15 at the Bismarck Radisson Hotel.

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Diaz Removed from SJU Web Site

Posted on May 6, 2014
Posted in Bill Cahoy, MaryAnn Baenninger, Miguel Diaz, Rob Culligan, Robert Koopmann, Sharon Nohner

In typical Saint John’s fashion, Miguel Diaz’s web page on the Saint John’s School of Theology web site was removed earlier today. An error page [ View ] is now in its place.

In 2013, Saint John’s removed almost all traces of a suspected perpetrator’s name from its web site [ View ] , even wiping the student-athlete’s name from the historical rosters.

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Loyola U. hires ex-Vatican ambassador with questionable past

Posted on May 6, 2014
Posted in Miguel Diaz

(Chicago Sin-Times) Loyola University Chicago is hiring a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, who faced allegations that he sexually harassed two colleagues while employed as a professor at the University of Dayton, according to an online higher education publication.

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Former SJU professor accused of sexual harassment at Dayton

Posted on May 6, 2014
Posted in Miguel Diaz

(SC Times) A former St. John’s University professor, University of Dayton theology professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican was accused last year of sexually harassing a married couple who also are professors at the University of Dayton, according to a report in an online higher education publication.

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Miguel Diaz: Unwanted Advances

Posted on May 5, 2014
Posted in Miguel Diaz

A theology professor who is a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican is moving from one Roman Catholic university to another after an investigation found it likely that he sexually harassed a married couple where he now works.
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Saint John’s SOT Professor “Likely Harrassed”

Posted on May 5, 2014
Posted in Anthony Ruff, MaryAnn Baenninger, Miguel Diaz

diaz_miguelMiguel Diaz, currently listed as a professor at Saint John’s School of Theology (SOT) was found to have likely engaged in “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” toward a married couple” and is “moving from one Roman Catholic university to another after an investigation found it likely that he sexually harassed a married couple where he now works.” [ View ]

Father Anthony Ruff, another SOT faculty member, received treatment at St. Luke’s nearly a decade ago [ View ].
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The Lost Book: Behind the Pine Curtain

Posted on April 8, 2014
Posted in Simeon Thole

1979_Peter_PrepAnd there in the dark, the sea of loneliness, isolation, and alienation that had been damned up for years broke upon him, and he tossed and panted and cried and nearly drowned in sorrow. Was there no friend? Was there no one who knew him? For the tenth time he tossed and twisted in his agony. He turned over onto his right side and huddled down under the sheet away from the fear. His had slipped beneath the elastic band of his shorts, and the turmoil subsided. There was someone that night who loved him. (Page 96)

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Your Turn: Abbey charts right path for Catholics

Posted on March 29, 2014
Posted in Jim Frey, PR Machine
[Webmaster’s Note: The author appears to be yet another of the abbey’s puppets, speaking not from experience but from text provided by a compromised leadership. Can Mr. Frey name five of the 240+ victims, five of the 40+ alleged perpetrators and/or five members of the review board?]

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Francis Hoefgen: Portrait of an abusive priest

Posted on March 20, 2014
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, Patrick Wall, Vince Konz

(CityPages) For four years he went into Minnesota parishes that were either struggling financially, or from sexual abuse allegations, and helped smooth things over. Then his conscience caught up with him.

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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.

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Crosiers list 19 accused men, one newly linked to St. Cloud

Posted on March 8, 2014
Posted in Crosiers

(SC Times) A new name with ties to the St. Cloud area has surfaced on a list of Crosiers with at least one credible accusation of sexually abusing a minor against them, according to an announcement from the religious order.

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Mother of priest’s victims reveals family pain

Posted on February 25, 2014
Posted in MPR
[Webmaster’s Note: A powerful article regarding the tragic ripple effects of abuse, especially when combined with deception and lies from the church.]

More painful than the abuse, the mother said, is the knowledge that top church officials could have prevented it. MPR News reported in September that leaders in the archdiocese kept secret Wehmeyer’s risky sexual behavior when Archbishop John Nienstedt appointed him pastor in 2009 of Blessed Sacrament and St. Thomas the Apostle, two St. Paul parishes that later merged. Today, they’re blaming her.

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MPR & Alleged Prep School Victim

Posted on February 21, 2014
Posted in Patrick Wall, St. John's Prep

A caller claiming to be a victim of sexual misconduct while at Saint John’s Prep School called Kerri Miller’s radio show on MPR yesterday.

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Where is Father Anthony Smithwick?

Posted on February 10, 2014
Posted in Anthony Smithwick

Visiting priest Father Anthony Smithwick has previously been credibly accused of sexual misconduct for incidents involving a Saint John’s University student in the early 1990s. At least one of the incidents was reportedly witnessed by, or reported to, Brother Willie.

Saint John’s has reportedly settled with at least one victim of Father Smithwick.

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Sexual Misconduct by Dr. Anthony Tabor (SJU)

Posted on February 4, 2014
Posted in Anthony Tabor

Dr_Anthony_TaborDr. Anthony Tabor was a member of the Saint John’s University Counseling Service staff in the late-1960’s and 1970’s.

At least one Saint John’s student has alleged sexual misconduct by Dr. Anthony Tabor.

In addition to misconduct at Saint John’s, there’s this:

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St. John’s Abbey monk moves to stop release of deposition

Posted on February 4, 2014
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Donald Kettler, Jeff Anderson, Michael Bryant, Robert Stich

(Pioneer Press) The Rev. Allen Tarlton, a monk with St. John’s Abbey accused of sexually abusing minor students, filed an emergency court order Sunday to bar release of his deposition.

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Letter: Priests guilty of worst crime never paid for it

Posted on February 4, 2014
Posted in Opinion

In World War II, many of the generals and officers who were in charge of the troops were convicted of war crimes and hung. It seems the Catholic hierarchy have escaped their due process of the law. These were unthinkable crimes against humanity and involved innocent children. They committed these horrific crimes and hid behind the cross and the Bible. There is no worse crime.

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Lawyers for abuse victims want diocese, abbey to release more information

Posted on February 3, 2014
Posted in Uncategorized

Leaders of the Diocese of St. Cloud and St. John’s Abbey haven’t done enough to protect children or other potential victims from clergy who are credibly accused of sex abuse and living in the community, alleged abuse victims and their attorneys said Monday.

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St. Cloud bishop, abbey abbot: We named all alleged abusers

Posted on January 28, 2014
Posted in 2013 Abbey List, 2014 St. Cloud List, Donald Kettler, John Klassen

The St. Cloud diocese and St. John’s Abbey have made public all of the names of priests and monks who have credible allegations against them of sexual misconduct with minors, according to the leaders of both institutions.

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Wayzata parish celebrates 150th anniversary

Posted on January 15, 2014
Posted in Don Tauscher, John Klassen, Jonathan Licari

Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Community in Wayzata will kick off a year-long celebration of its 150th anniversary with a 10:30 a.m. Mass Jan. 19. Abbott John Klassen of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, will preside at the Mass. Read More