Archdiocese List Includes Three Abbey Monks

Posted on December 5, 2013
Posted in 2013 Archdiocesan List, Brennan Maiers, Cosmas Dahlheimer, Fran Hoefgen

Released earlier today, the partial list of thirty (30) offending priests within the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis includes three monks from Saint John’s Abbey (bold, below).

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Judge orders St. Paul archdiocese, Winona diocese, to release lists of accused priests

Posted on December 2, 2013
Posted in 2013 Archdiocesan List, Uncategorized

(Star Tribune) The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, as well as the Diocese of Winona, must release the names of 46 priests accused of sexually abusing minors, a Ramsey County District Court judge ruled Monday. He set a deadline of Dec. 17.

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Administrative Histories – Saint John’s University

Posted on November 27, 2013
Posted in Uncategorized

*** Presidents of Saint John’s University

Note: Before 1866, the abbey’s prior acted as ex-officio Presidents of the College

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Hoefgen’s Brother Also Perp Priest; Mom a Nun

Posted on November 26, 2013
Posted in Elva Hoefgen, Fran Hoefgen, Raymond J. Hoefgen

Father Fran Hoefgen’s brother, Rev. Raymond J. Hoefgen, was credibly accused of sexual misconduct involving minors in 2002. His mother, Elva Hoefgen, joined Saint Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota in 1980.

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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 to an abusive priest since 2006.

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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.

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Documents: Stearns priest investigation file destroyed in routine purge

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen, Janelle Kendall

(SC Times) The file containing details of the investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by the Rev. Fran Hoefgen likely was destroyed in the 1990s as part of a routine purging of records from cases in which no charges were filed.

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Archdiocese Statement Regarding Francis Hoefgen

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen

We are investigating the claims in today’s lawsuit which involves Francis Hoefgen, a former priest of St. John’s Abbey who served in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in the mid-1980’s.

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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.

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Hoefgen’s Housemate: Perps are Mentally Ill (Video)

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in David Ostrowski, Fran Hoefgen, Tim Backous

ost_massAccording to Father David Ostrowski, former Saint John’s Abbey monk and current priest with the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis:

“We have to rid our church of these mentally ill men and we also have to hold those who covered it up very much accountable.”

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Saint Luke Institute (1978 Brochure)

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

Saint Luke Institute (1978 Brochure)

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Filed Complaint re Hoefgen Matter

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen

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The Order of St. Benedict a/k/a and d/b/a St. John’s Abbey, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Saint Luke Institute, and Reverend Francis Hoefgen, OSB.

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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.

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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.

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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 abuse.

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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 sexual predator.

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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.

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Photos of Father Fran Hoefgen, OSB

Posted on November 19, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen

Photos of Father Fran Hoefgen, OSB

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Lawsuit expected against St. John’s Abbey, priest

Posted on November 18, 2013
Posted in Fran Hoefgen

Fr_Fran_Hoefgen(SC Times) A press conference has been scheduled for Tuesday morning in St. Paul to announce the filing of a clergy sex abuse lawsuit against a former St. John’s Abbey priest.

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Regarding Dr. Anthony Tabor

Posted on November 18, 2013
Posted in Anthony Tabor, Bruce Wollmering, Finian McDonald

Dr_Anthony_Tabor Doctor Anthony Tabor worked in the Saint John’s University Psychology Department with Father Bruce Wollmering and Father Finian McDonald from 1967 until 1976.

The three men worked as counselors for numerous students in Collegeville.

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