MINNESOTA
Fox 9

[with video]

Updated: Dec 15, 2013

posted by Shelby Capacio
video report by Trish Van Pilsum

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (KMSP) –

“I hope you die a thousand deaths” — shocking and violent words from a Catholic monk in Minnesota whose message led to an apology from the head of St. John’s Abbey for a victim of sexual abuse — and a criminal investigation.

St. John’s Abbey is located in Collegeville, Minn., northwest of St. Cloud, Minn. A college, a prep school and a monastery that hundreds of monks of the Benedictine order have called home can be found there.

Most of the monks who lived there have never been in trouble, but in the past few days, St. John’s Abbey released a list of 18 monks who have faced credible allegations of sexual abuse.

No one has pushed harder for that release than a man…