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Aquinas Walter Richard Sipe (December 11, 1932 – August 8, 2018) was an American Benedictine monk-priest for 18 years (1952–1970 at Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota [1]), a psychotherapist and the author of six books about Catholicism, clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and clerical celibacy.
Saint John's Abbey has been subject of several child abuse cases with accounts reaching far back as the 1970's. In 2011, St. John's Abbey released the names of 18 current or former monks who "have had credible allegations of sexual abuse, exploitation, or misconduct brought against them while they were working in one of the apostolates of St ...
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Saint John's Abbey, the monastery where Guimond's scent was tracked. In 2003, Brian Guimond cited as evidence of malicious intent the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling in 1989 – also in Stearns County – and the scandal regarding sexual abuse by monks living at Saint John's Abbey, a monastery connected to the campus.
A Wisconsin priest, Lawrence C Murphy, who taught at the former St. John School for the Deaf in the Milwaukee suburb of St. Francis, Wisconsin, from 1950 to 1974, allegedly molested more than 200 deaf boys. Several U.S. bishops warned the Holy See that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church.
An abuse survivor has echoed calls for the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign as he demanded a “clean sweep” of senior clergy members. Mark Stibbe, who was abused by John Smyth QC in the 1980s ...
On 22 August 1979 Theisen was elected as the eighth abbot of Saint John's Abbey receiving his abbatial blessing on 19 October 1979. [3] He served in the role for the next thirteen years until he was elected as the seventh Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation and Order of St. Benedict on 19 September 1992.
The abuse spanned five decades and three countries with as many as many as 130 boys and young men victimised, a review found. Church of England response to John Smyth serial abuse ‘amounted to a ...