Predatory Fundraising at Saint John’s?

Posted on August 2, 2012
Posted in Daniel Whalen, Denise Holstad, Dietrich Reinhart, Eric Hollas, Gary Stoos, Jim Dwyer, John Young, Mark Brown, Predatory Fundraising, Rob Culligan, Robert Koopmann

Saint John’s is party to legal battles in both the California and Minnesota court systems.

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John Gagliardi on Joe Paterno, Penn State’s NCAA sanctions

Posted on July 24, 2012
Posted in Joe Paterno, John Gagliardi

Perhaps the best perspective on the demise of Joe Paterno’s legacy is the one held by another college football coaching legend.

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Gagliardi on Paterno: ‘He made a horrible mistake’

Posted on July 24, 2012
Posted in Joe Paterno, John Gagliardi

Until the scandal that rocked Penn State, St. John’s football coach John Gagliardi often talked about how much he respected Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno and his storied football program.

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Matthew Feeney Slipped Through Their Fingers.

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Matthew Feeney, Opinion

The truth is Stearns County failed our children as well as the child in Massachusetts . Had they done their jobs 20 years ago this man may still be behind bars. At the very least he would still be a Registered Sex Offender and unable to be in the position to reoffend.

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Lawsuit claims St. John’s Abbey knew of sexual abuse in 1958

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Jeff Anderson

A lawsuit filed today against St. John’s Abbey accuses the religious order of knowing about sexual abuse allegations against a member of the order as far back as 1958, yet letting him teach at St. John’s until 1990.

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New sexual abuse lawsuit filed against St. John’s Prep

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Jerome Thiesen

– New sexual abuse lawsuit filed against St. John’s Prep
– Former student claims the School and St. John’s Abbey allowed known offender to mentor and abuse him in 1980’s
– Father Gilbert Tarlton had long history of sexual misconduct

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Colleague Remembers Father Tarlton

Posted on July 19, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Bahamas

Fr. Gilbert Tarlton was the Head of English Department at St. Augustine’s College when the interviewee began teaching at the high school in the spring of 1968.

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1992 Lawsuit Against Father Allan Tarlton (Video)

Posted on July 15, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Jeff Anderson

Local television news coverage of the October 1992 filing of a lawsuit by attorney Jeff Anderson against Saint John’s Abbey and Father Allen Tarlton.     Read More

Man, St. Cloud diocese settle lawsuit

Posted on July 15, 2012
Posted in Michael Weber

The St. Cloud diocese has settled a lawsuit with a man who accused a former deacon of sexually abusing him in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Video of Fr. Mel Taylor Confrontation

Posted on July 12, 2012
Posted in Bahamas, Mel Taylor, Patrick Pinder

This still frame, from a video taken with a cell phone camera on June 3, 2012, shows a man (at right) using a microphone to address the congregation at Father Mel Taylor’s last mass [ View ] in the Bahamas.

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Abuser on Gagliardi’s Staff After Abuse Revelation

Posted on July 10, 2012
Posted in Dan Ward, Jim Smith, John Gagliardi, John Kelly, John Klassen

A July, 1992 letter from Father Dan Ward (monk and attorney for Saint John’s Abbey) claimed that Brother John Kelly “had been removed from his work at the prep school and the university” following allegations of sexual misconduct.  Contents of the letter were made public as part of an article in the August 27, 1992, edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune [ View ].

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Archbishop Pinder Alerted to Misconduct by Mel Taylor

Posted on July 9, 2012
Posted in Bahamas, Mel Taylor, Patrick Pinder

Like Abbot Timothy Kelly and Abbot John Klassen before him, Archbishop Patrick Pinder (Bahamas) was made aware of Father Mel Taylor’s misconduct.

Had Archbishop Pinder acted in the best interests of his church and Mel Taylor’s victim, the incident on June 3, 2012 [ View ] might have been avoided.

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Archdiocese Launches Program To Protect The Abused

Posted on June 29, 2012
Posted in Mel Taylor, Patrick Pinder

Pinder said it is unfortunate that there are some members of the Order of St. Benedict against whom allegations of sexual abuse have risen.

[Webmaster’s Note: Those “members” include Father Mel Taylor, who reportedly left the Bahamas on June 4, 2012 after being confronted at mass on June 3, 2012 View ]

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New charges for [Feeney] accused of molesting boy

Posted on June 28, 2012
Posted in Matthew Feeney

Feeney was arrested by Norton [Massachusetts] police in February and pleaded innocent to indecent assault and battery and other charges related to an alleged incident in December 2010 not related to his casting company. He is free on $25,000 cash bail in that case, which is still pending, with a similar order to stay away from minors.

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Matthew Feeney (re Jacob Wetterling)

Posted on June 26, 2012
Posted in Jacob Wetterling, Matthew Feeney

The night Jacob was taken I was returning from a Youth Group event and dropping off XXXXXX (who lived across from the Wetterlings) so we were by the 7-11 and drove down the Wetterling road within an hour (if not minutes) of the actual abduction. – Matthew Feeney (October 26, 2010)

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Former St. Joseph Youth Minister Arrested

Posted on June 26, 2012
Posted in Matthew Feeney, Thomas Gillespie

Matthew “Matti” Feeney, former youth minister at St. Joseph Church in St. Joseph, Minnesota was arrested this morning. [ View ]

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Minnesota talent agent Matthew Feeney jailed on child molestation charges

Posted on June 26, 2012
Posted in Matthew Feeney

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KMSP) – A Minnesota talent agent accused of molesting two brothers who wanted to become actors was booked into jail early Tuesday, one day after a nationwide warrant was issued for his arrest.

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Father Mel Taylor Confronted at Mass, Leaves Bahamas

Posted on June 25, 2012
Posted in Bahamas, John Kinney, John Klassen, Mel Taylor, Timothy Kelly

Father Mel Taylor reportedly left the Bahamas on Monday, June 4, 2012, a day after he was confronted during mass by a man who claimed Father Mel Taylor had pursued him (for a sexual relationship) over a year and a half period.  The man used the church’s microphone after communion to make the accusations.

Father Mel Taylor was not scheduled to leave the Bahamas until June 24, 2012 but reportedly left early “for health reasons.”

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Prep School Escapees

Posted on June 23, 2012
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Dunstan Moorse, Francisco Schulte, Isaac Connolly, Jim Phillips, John Kelly, Margaret Hanegraaf, Mel Taylor, Michael Bik, Steve Pavkovich, Tom Andert

Approximately 1178 students attended the Prep School in the 80’s. 438
left before their senior year.

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Minnesota Monastery Gone Wild

Posted on June 21, 2012
Posted in Aelred Senna, Bob Pierson

MINNESOTA, June 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) —Collegeville, Minnesota’s notoriously liberal Benedictine community of St. John’s Abbey is in the spotlight once again as one of its monks urges Catholics to oppose the cause for true marriage.

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