Scandal at the Abbey: Benedictines set model for healing scars of abuse. (Church In Crisis).(First in a two-part series)(St. John's Abbey in Minnesota)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 13, 2002| Author: Lefevere, Patricia | Copyright information

First in a two-part series

Its reputation for learning and liturgy, publishing and holiness, ecumenism and even bread-making are legendary and have grown over its 146-year existence, making St. John's Abbey here--with its impressive abbey church and signature bell tower--a jewel in the Minnesota prairie landscape.

But the jewel has been tarnished with the disclosure in recent months of a history of sex abuse by a handful of monks, much of it perpetrated 20 to...

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