MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 12/09/2013
St. John’s Abbey has released a list of monks “likely to have offended against minors,” according to a Monday statement.
Most of the 18 names had been made public previously.
Of the monks listed on the Abbey website and released to media Monday, seven are dead, two have been “dispensed from their religious vows and are no longer connected to the abbey,” and nine are living at the abbey under supervision, said the written statement by Abbot John Klassen.
The living monks are: Michael Bik, Richard Eckroth, Thomas Gillespie, Brennan Maiers, Finian McDonald, Dunstan Moorse, James Phillips, Francisco Schulte and Allen Tarlton. Those deceased are Andre Bennett, Robert Blumeyer, Cosmas Dahlheimer, Othmar Hohmann, Dominic Keller, Pirmin Wendt and Bruce Wollmering.
The two who are no longer monks are Francis Hoefgen and John Kelly. …
The abbey released a similar list of 18 names in April 2011, and kept the list on its website temporarily. It included three names that are missing from the current list: former Abbot John Eidenschink, Steven Lilly and Isaac Connolly.
It was not immediately clear why those names were dropped.
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