Alum: No Support for Saint John’s

Posted on June 15, 2011
Posted in Michael Cummings, PR Machine, Withholding Donations

We have stopped giving to St. John’s because of the ongoing abuse scandal there. I realize that the administration has claimed that everything has been handled but that is not the case.

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SNAP’s Video of Abbot Timothy Kelly Press Conference (Video)

Posted on June 11, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, SNAP, Timothy Kelly

Witness the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as A.W. Richard Sipe and Patrick J. Wall, both former Benedictine monks and now recognized world-renowned experts on clergy sexual abuse, return home to Minnesota in support of survivors of sexual abuse by a former Abbot of St. John’s Abbey. – Bob Schwiderski, MN SNAP

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Phillips and St. John’s Boys’ Choir

Posted on June 10, 2011
Posted in Jim Phillips, Opinion

This is absolutely crazy! None of these Priests, Monks, Brothers, Abbots, etc, are ever held accountable. I don’t get it! I saw a Brother (Jim Phillips) in the St. John’s Abbey just the other night attending the St. John’s Boys Choir concert. He has been accused SEVERAL times of sexually abusing young boys and there he was, unsupervised, watching 50+ little boys singing. Can ANYTHING be done to keep these known abusers away from children?

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Klassen releases statement about sexual abuse claim against former abbot

Posted on June 9, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, John Klassen, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

“Contrary to Abbot Klassen’s accusations in his statement, we (filed the lawsuit) only because Saint John’s had already been made aware of the charges nearly six months ago and failed to investigate it, respond to it, or disclose it,” Anderson’s statement read.

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Jeff Anderson Responds to St. John’s Abbot

Posted on June 9, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, John Klassen, Richard Sipe, SG, Timothy Kelly

Having just read the statement [ View ]  released today by Abbot John Klassen on behalf of the Abbey of Saint John’s, I am alarmed and deeply sad.

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Statement from Abbot John Klassen Regarding Timothy Kelly

Posted on June 9, 2011
Posted in BS, John Klassen, Timothy Kelly

Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation are morally reprehensible.  Saint John’s Abbey works honestly and openly with victims of sexual abuse and their attorneys to do all we can to correct the grievous wrongs that have been committed in the past by some members of our community.  The Saint John’s monastic community continues to extend prayers to all survivors of abuse.

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Vatican Alerted to Timothy Kelly’s Misconduct in March

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in Dan Ward, John Klassen, Pat Marker, Review Board, Timothy Kelly

“As we discussed, I believe that misconduct by men such as Father Dan Ward and Abbot Timothy Kelly as perpetrators, and perhaps even more as concealers of misconduct perpetrated by others, have destroyed the integrity of the institution and the lives of far too many innocent, good people.” – Patrick Marker to Vatican Officials

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Lawsuit details abuse of altar boy by former St. John’s abbot

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in Jeff Anderson, Michael Ford, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

A.W. Richard Sipe, a former monk at St. John’s who has worked on numerous cases of clergy sex abuse nationwide, said at a news conference Tuesday that he spoke to the man who is alleging the abuse and that there were “four to 12 other students” who were friends of the man who also had been sexually abused at St. Anselm’s.

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New York man sues St. John’s Abbey

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in ISTI, Jeff Anderson, Paul Richards, Timothy Kelly

(Star Tribune) A New York man is suing St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict in Collegeville, Minn., alleging a former abbot sexually abused him decades ago at a Bronx church.

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Saint John’s Abbey Statement Regarding Abbot Timothy Kelly

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in PR Machine, Timothy Kelly

The Abbey was saddened and shocked to learn of allegations of sexual abuse in the mid-60s against one of its deceased members, Abbot Timothy Kelly. In accordance with its Policy, Saint John’s Abbey has begun an investigation of the accusation.

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Former St. John’s abbot accused of molesting NY teen in ’60s

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

(MPR) St. Paul, Minn. — A New York man says a former abbot at Minnesota’s St. John’s Abbey sexually abused him decades ago while he was a parish priest in the Bronx. The Rev. Timothy Kelly later went on to found a service organization meant to help victims of sexual abuse by clergy.

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New York man sues St. John’s Abbey

Posted on June 7, 2011
Posted in ISTI, Jeff Anderson, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

(AP) ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two former monks at St. John’s Abbey say the monastery fosters a culture of sexual secrecy that comes from the top. Patrick Wall and Richard Sipe joined St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson on Tuesday to announce a lawsuit alleging a former abbot at St. John’s, Timothy Kelly, abused an altar boy when he was a priest at a church in New York in the 1960s.

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Former altar boy accuses Abbot Timothy Kelly of abuse

Posted on June 6, 2011
Posted in Patrick Wall, Timothy Kelly

(SC Times) A New York man is suing St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict, accusing former Abbot Timothy Kelly of sexually abusing him in 1966 when the man was an altar boy and when Kelly was associate pastor at St. Anselm’s Church in the Bronx.

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New Lawsuit says Former St. John’s Abbot Timothy Kelly abused altar boy in 1966

Posted on June 6, 2011
Posted in ISTI, Patrick Wall, Richard Sipe, Timothy Kelly

Media Advisory/News Conference
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 12:30

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Timeline & Quotes: Timothy Kelly

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Allen Tarlton, Bahamas, Colegio del Tepeyac, Dan Ward, Dietrich Reinhart, Francisco Schulte, ISTI, Jerome Hanus, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, Richard Eckroth, Richard Sipe, Thomas Gillespie, Timothy Kelly, Tom Andert

April 20, 1934 – Thomas Daniel Kelly born in Milwaukee, WI

Grades 1 – 6: Public Schools in Minneapolis, MN
Grades 7 & 8: Annunciation Parish School in Minneapolis, MN
High School: St. Thomas Military Academy in St. Paul, MN
College: St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN

1954: Enters novitiate at St. John’s Abbey

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Fr. Schulte

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Timothy Kelly

St. John’s Abbey publications and newspaper articles from the 1990s on contradict the abbey’s own statement about the whereabouts and work history of the Rev. Francisco Schulte after the abbey received an allegation of sexual misconduct against him.

 

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Fr. Gillespie

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Dan Ward, John Klassen, Thomas Gillespie, Timothy Kelly

[Update: On November 24, 2015, files were released with information about this matter. Please view the update… Here ]

When Fr. Thomas Gillespie was yanked from the Catholic church in Saint Joseph, Minnesota on February 23, 1996, replacement priest Fr. Dan Ward and Abbot Timothy Kelly refused to provide an honest answer — the real reason — for Fr. Gillespie’s removal.

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Fr. Dan Ward

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Dan Ward, Timothy Kelly

When I reported the misconduct by Fr. Dan Ward to Abbot Timothy Kelly he listened but then dismissed me saying I was over exaggerating and it would all pass by… I could not believe this. I was consoled by another monk at the time and he had told me that Abbot Kelly had known about Fr. Ward from a previous case and had done nothing about it.

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Abbot Kelly Covered Up Misconduct by Archabbot Nowicki

Posted on June 5, 2011
Posted in Douglas Nowicki, Timothy Kelly

Abbot Timothy Kelly, in his capacity president of the American-Cassinese Congregation, was complicit in the cover-up of allegations of sexual misconduct made against Archabbot Douglas Nowicki of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, when the allegations reported to Abbot Timothy Kelly were not properly investigated or dealt with in an appropriate manner.

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Same old spin on sex abuse by priests

Posted on May 27, 2011
Posted in John Jay Study

A newly issued report commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops would have Americans believe that the so-called lax cultural mores of the 1960s and 1970s are largely to blame for the sexual abuse of thousands of children and teens at the hands of priests.

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