PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 30, 2013
By Ann Rodgers / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Vatican forcibly removed a priest who had been an anthropology professor and popular speaker at St. Vincent College from ministry and barred him from his Benedictine order, according to an announcement today from St. Vincent Archabbey.
The announcement from the archabbey did not focus on its previous allegations that Rev. Mark Gruber had pornography on his computer.
Instead it stressed that the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had reviewed evidence that Mr. Gruber was behind allegations, widely disseminated on a Web site, that Archabbot Douglas Nowicki had sexually harassed a young former monk.
The announcement said that the former monk has since signed a sworn statement saying that his allegations against the archabbot were a lie and that then-Father Gruber had written parts of the statement for him.
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