From Monk to Sex Plaintiffs’ Advocate
As a Benedictine monk, Patrick Wall gained the reputation as a fix-it priest for the Catholic Church. His first four assignments wearing a Roman collar: straightening out parishes tainted by...
View ArticleFormer ‘fixer’ now helps the abuse victims
He liked the job at first. His superiors liked him. He was 26, he was moving fast, and he was doing God’s work. But by the time he’d taken over his fourth parish in four years, he realized he wasn’t...
View ArticleThis American Life: Act Two. Confession.
Act two, Confession. We turn now to stories about people who are operating behind enemy lines in one way or another. And we begin with the story of a young priest who is sent out on a series of jobs by...
View Article‘Divorce’ from the Benedictines
SANTA ANA, Calif. — After 11 years as a monk, Patrick Wall was so disheartened by cases of sexual abuse, he renounced his vows and left the abbey. now, he works investigating abusive priests In bright...
View ArticlePriest Quits Church to Expose Scandals
Irish Benedictine monk Patrick Wall thought his life was over when he quit the priesthood in disgust at the way he claims his bosses covered up sickening sex scandals. But the angry Irishman decided to...
View ArticleFormer monk now investigates priests
SANTA ANA – In bright sunlight, Patrick Wall walked in darkness. Lost in the secular world. After 11 years as a Benedictine monk – six as a priest – he had renounced his vows and left St. John’s Abbey....
View ArticleCredibly Accused of Sexual Misconduct
St. John’s Abbey Benedictine establishment at Collegeville, MN, the largest Benedictine monastery in the western world, adjacent to St. John’s University and St. John’s Preparatory School. At least 14...
View ArticleThe “Pedophile’s Paradise”
Wall’s first call as a sex-abuse fixer knocked on his door one morning in 1991, while he was brushing his teeth. [Pat] Wall was not yet a priest, just a monk studying at St. John’s University in...
View ArticleThe abuse of children by clerics has left a permanent scar upon the soul of...
BISHOPS who failed to report priests accused of sexually abusing children should be prosecuted in the courts, according to a former monk and canon lawyer. US attorney Patrick J Wall said nothing would...
View ArticleNew Lawsuit says Former St. John’s Abbot Timothy Kelly abused altar boy in 1966
Media Advisory/News Conference Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 12:30 New Lawsuit says Former St. John’s Abbot Timothy Kelly abused altar boy in 1966 The priest then co-founded Interfaith Sexual Trauma...
View ArticleFormer altar boy accuses Abbot Timothy Kelly of abuse
(SC Times) A New York man is suing St. John’s Abbey and the Order of St. Benedict, accusing former Abbot Timothy Kelly of sexually abusing him in 1966 when the man was an altar boy and when Kelly was...
View ArticleNew York man sues St. John’s Abbey
(AP) ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two former monks at St. John’s Abbey say the monastery fosters a culture of sexual secrecy that comes from the top. Patrick Wall and Richard Sipe joined St. Paul attorney Jeff...
View ArticleFormer St. John’s abbot accused of molesting NY teen in ’60s
(MPR) St. Paul, Minn. — A New York man says a former abbot at Minnesota’s St. John’s Abbey sexually abused him decades ago while he was a parish priest in the Bronx. The Rev. Timothy Kelly later went...
View ArticleLawsuit details abuse of altar boy by former St. John’s abbot
A.W. Richard Sipe, a former monk at St. John’s who has worked on numerous cases of clergy sex abuse nationwide, said at a news conference Tuesday that he spoke to the man who is alleging the abuse and...
View ArticleKlassen releases statement about sexual abuse claim against former abbot
“Contrary to Abbot Klassen’s accusations in his statement, we (filed the lawsuit) only because Saint John’s had already been made aware of the charges nearly six months ago and failed to investigate...
View ArticleSNAP’s Video of Abbot Timothy Kelly Press Conference (Video)
Witness the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as A.W. Richard Sipe and Patrick J. Wall, both former Benedictine monks and now recognized world-renowned experts on clergy sexual abuse,...
View ArticleOnetime priest crusades for abuse victims suing Catholic Church
(CNN) – As a young man studying for the priesthood, Patrick Wall imagined life as a professor and football coach at a Catholic university. It didn’t work out that way. Two decades later, Wall has not...
View ArticleLate 1960’s… Three Abusive Priests at St. Anselm in the Bronx
[Note: Since the New York Post article regarding former Abbot Timothy Kelly (below) was published on June 7, 2011, other stories of abuse and misconduct have been shared. “Fr. Tim,” as Timothy Kelly...
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Former Monks Featured in Movie
Former Saint John’s Abbey monks Pat Wall and A.W. Richard Sipe are featured in the HBO documentary “Mea Maxima Culpa”. The movie premiered on the HBO network on Monday, February 4, 2013. Sipe and Wall...
View ArticleWho is Father Dan Ward?
(GlobalPost.com) Dan Ward is by any measure a complex man. The lawyer-priest righteously helps nuns on property matters and how to deal with a Vatican investigation. A canonist and civil lawyer, he has...
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