Requesting a Password

Posted on October 28, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized

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Fr. Wollmering’s Misconduct

Posted on October 27, 2010
Posted in Bruce Wollmering

In 1969, Fr. Bruce Wollmering O.S.B from St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota (USA) abused a 14 year old St. John’s Preparatory student.

Between 1975 and 1980, Wollmering had relationships with at least three of his students.

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Abbot Timothy Kelly and Others Deceived, Outright Lied

Posted on October 20, 2010
Posted in ISTI, PR Machine, Richard Sipe, Roman Paur, Timothy Kelly, Tom Andert

I debated writing anything for weeks, because of not wanting to join one “side” — what was always best about ISTI was the intention to include all voices — but having perused your website pretty thoroughly, I don’t find anything hysterical or dishonest there, just simple open fact and truth-telling. And again, despite the abbey’s stated intentions to be open and inclusive, they always, under pressure, seem to choose self-protection over full disclosure. So, despite what the abbey thinks, I decided that not speaking up is also joining one side — the side that is perpetuating the conditions of abuse.

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Benedictine Sisters receive special edition of The Saint John’s Bible

Posted on October 13, 2010
Posted in John Klassen, Monk Travel, St. John's Bible

(crookstontimes.com) For 500 years, the Bible has been printed using printing presses and more recently, digital media. Before that, monks and nuns copied the Bible by hand. As a result we have those magnificent hand-lettered and illuminated bibles such as the Book of Kells or the Lindisfarne Gospels.

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Abbot John Klassen Speaks at Timothy Kelly’s Funeral (Video)

Posted on October 13, 2010
Posted in John Klassen, Timothy Kelly

Abbot John Klassen at Timothy Kelly’s Funeral

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Abbot Hugh Anderson Speaks at Abbot Timothy Kelly’s Funeral (Video)

Posted on October 13, 2010
Posted in Hugh Anderson, Timothy Kelly

Abbot Hugh Anderson Speaks at Abbot Timothy Kelly’s Funeral

Reflection by Abbot Hugh Anderson, OSB, St Procopius Abbey

Anti-Gay Bullying at St. John’s

Posted on October 12, 2010
Posted in Eric Loehr, Homosexuality, Opinion

However, the bullying carries much farther than a high school or university classroom. Homosexual men and women, as well as those who support them, are being turned away from one faith community.

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Glyer Now at Guesthouse

Posted on October 12, 2010
Posted in Isidore Glyer, Pornography

Booted from the Prep School after caught viewing pornography on his St. John’s Prep School computer, Br. Isidore Glyer is now working in the St. John’s Abbey Guesthouse.

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Abbey Uses Timothy Kelly’s Obituary to Rewrite History

Posted on October 11, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, Jerome Thiesen, John Klassen, Obituary, PR Machine, Thomas Gillespie, Timothy Kelly

Recent obituaries in the StarTribune [ View ] and on the Abbey web site [ View ] include information (and revisionist history) regarding the abuse scandal at St. John’s. Shame on the Abbey for using Timothy Kelly’s death as a public relations tool.

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Abbot Kelly was quiet leader in difficult time

Posted on October 11, 2010
Posted in Obituary, Timothy Kelly

[Abbot Timothy Kelly] is also remembered as a strong leader who helped start the healing process for the community at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., during a troubled time in its history.

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St. John’s Abbey… on Monk Sexuality

Posted on October 11, 2010
Posted in Bob Pierson, Homosexuality, St. John's

We believe that human sexual orientation, both heterosexual and homosexual, is blessed by God as part of the original blessing of creation. We reject any suggestion that God withholds his blessings from some parts of his creation… We believe that each member of the community has a serious moral and spiritual responsibility to live chaste celibacy in a manner assuring that others in and outside the monastic community are not harmed by inappropriate behavior or relationships. – St. John’s Abbey (2005)

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Unspeakable Damage

Posted on October 10, 2010
Posted in Pedophilia, Richard Sipe

Mickey Morey an Oregon lawyer who has litigated many priest sex abuse cases across the country introduced me to SAD TRIPS—an acronym that refers to long-term consequences of sexual abuse of minors. He does not remember who devised it and I have been unable to find the originator.

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Abbot Timothy Kelly, OSB, death notification, 76

Posted on October 8, 2010
Posted in Timothy Kelly

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Abbot Timothy (Thomas) Kelly, OSB, ninth abbot of Saint John’s Abbey for eight years (1992-2000) and president of the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine men for nine years (2001-2010), died at Collegeville, Minnesota, on 7 October 2010. He was born on 20 April 1934, professed monastic vows on 11 July 1955, was ordained to the priesthood on 3 June 1961, was elected and confirmed abbot on 27 November 1992, and received the abbatial blessing on 10 January 1993.

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Homosexual Activists Confront Archbishop at College Mass

Posted on October 8, 2010
Posted in Harry Flynn, Homosexuality, John Eidenschink, Michael Hemmesch, Pat Marker, Rene McGraw, Review Board, Robert Koopmann

“It’s the Church that’s causing the problems here, not the students or their opinions. In comparison to the Benedictines and the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University community, Nienstedt and archbishops in general are conservative.” – Fr. Rene McGraw, St. John’s Abbey

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Obituary: Abbot Timothy Kelly OSB

Posted on October 7, 2010
Posted in Bahamas, Timothy Kelly

Abbot Timothy Thomas Kelly OSB, ninth abbot of Saint John’s Abbey for eight years (1992-2000) and president of the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine men for nine years (2001-2010), died at Collegeville, Minnesota.

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Wolves among the Sheep: The Collegeville Affair

Posted on October 7, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, Rene McGraw

But far worse is the fact that a priest, Fr. Rene McGraw, who is also a philosophy professor at St. John’s, immediately gathered the student gay activists together and said a separate Mass for them so that he could give them communion… Unless Fr. McGraw were really Pope Benedict XVI in disguise, his interpretation of Canon Law had already been overruled.

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Archbishop denies GLBT group its Communion during CSB/SJU event

Posted on October 6, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, John Nienstedt

The archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis refused to serve Communion to members of a gay and lesbian student group who were wearing rainbow buttons at a Sept. 26 Mass at St. John’s University’s campus.

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Gay Activists Denied Communion

Posted on October 5, 2010
Posted in Homosexuality, John Nienstedt

During a St. John’s Abbey mass, students and others wearing protest buttons and sashes received Archbishop John Nienstedt’s hand of blessing rather than the eucharist.

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Abbot John Klassen: Burden is on the Victims

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted in Francisco Schulte, John Klassen


Many victims of sexual abuse will not use or permit the use of the word forgiveness. We know that if victims of any great harm are to come to some peace with it, they need to take the steps to forgiveness. – Abbot John Klassen, 2010

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Policy Not Followed… A Letter to Abbot John Klassen

Posted on September 30, 2010
Posted in Bahamas, John Klassen, Mexico, Pat Marker, Puerto Rico, Rome, Sacro Speco, San Antonio Abad, Sant' Anselmo Monastery

I am requesting that you immediately notify all potential victims of Fr. Francisco Schulte in Puerto Rico, Minnesota, North Carolina, Rome, Mexico and the Bahamas.

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