About This Web Site
This web site was created following multiple allegations of sexual and other misconduct at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. If you were a victim of misconduct, please contact law enforcement, a therapist or an attorney. If you have a question about this web site or want to discuss issues related to St. Vincent, abuse […]
History
From Wikipedia: Saint Vincent Archabbey, was founded in 1846 by Father Boniface Wimmer, OSB, and is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States. The Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey operate and teach at Saint Vincent College and Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, located 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The monks […]
Message Via Web Site #3
Dear Editor, I went through St. Vincent College and received a decent liberal arts education. My friends and I see that it is going down hill, and we are withholding our donations. It seems that alumni donations are substantially down nowadays, so the word is getting out. When I read your web site it all […]
Message Via Web Site #2
Dear Web Page Admin, Nowhere is the culture of denial so entrenched than St. Vincent Archabbey. The tyrannical regime of Archabbot Nowicki has reduced the monastery to utter turpitude. The best and brightest were exile, marginalized or destroyed; the dullest and dumbest were elevated to positions of office in college, seminary and formation. The Archabbot […]
Dominicans Sever Ties With Saint Vincent’s Archabbey
Please be advised that Archabbot Douglas Nowicki is now propagating the following myth around St Vincent Archabbey: the termination of this academic arrangement is attributable to the “Dominicans mislaying the paperwork” necessary for the continuance of the academic arrangement.
Letter to Members of the Council of Seniors
The continuance in office by Archabbot Nowicki is a great scandal, and satisfies this statute from the Constitutions of the American Cassinese Congregation, which I include for the consideration of this Council.
Message via Web Site #1
I want to thank you for posting what you did regarding [Becket Senchur] … I am glad that it has at least made it to some public forum, as this is a larger piece in the sad situation at St. Vincent. … I am well acquainted with their humanity and capacity for denial (a trait […]
Rev. Becket Senchur ?
I can attest that the male individual who is located as the second individual from left to right is Fr. Becket Senshur, O.S.B. He is wearing a black hat with writing with the last two visible letters on the hat being “AD”. Additionally, the person I knew as Fr. Becket Senshur, O.S.B. is wearing eyeglasses […]
Letter to Abbot Hugh Anderson
As outlined above these are two of the most serious allegations that can be levelled against any religious leader in the Roman Catholic Church in America. Yet they are dismissed/ignored by you; which allows Archabbot Nowicki to continue exercise of his abbatial authority with an impunity comparable to that enjoyed by Robert Mugabe. – James […]
Regarding Rev. Becket Sunchur
Bishop Coleman, enclosed is an affidavit made by Bradley J. Kraus in a private capacity positively identifying Fr. Becket G. Senchur, OSB, a monk and priest of the Archabbey of St Vincent, Latrobe, Pennsylvania taken at a gay festival celebrating leather fetishism in West Village, New York City with the photograph being viewable the Village Voice website. […]
Letter to Bishop Coleman
From his address listing, publicly available, you will be able to discern that Br. Benthall is now living in Pittsburgh. The local Ordinary, Bishop Zubic will be able to attest, whether, he has received written notification from Archabbot Nowicki that a member of the conventional chapter of St Vincent Archabbey is resident within his canonical […]
Carr Letter to Archabbot Nowicki
I want my day in court with you. By the way absolutely make sure you have the CONSENT (Douglas, I know this will be difficult because you normally act unilaterally) of the small chapter before you proceed to litigate with me, if you are going to litigation on behalf of the “Benedictine Society”. Did you […]
Fr. Gruber’s Appeal to the CDF
The undersigned, Reverend Fr. Mark Gruber, O.S.B., hereby formally appeals against the decision of this Congregation, dated June 30, 2011, and notified to him through the offices of Archabbot, Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B. on January 12, 2012.
Fr. Mark Gruber’s Repudiation of Deposition
The undersigned, Fr. Mark Francis Gruber, O.S.B., Ph.D., D.P.A.S., a solemnly professed monk and ordained priest with stability at St Vincent Archabbey, a constituent monastery of the American Cassinese Benedictine Congregation, do hereby formally repudiate entirely the contents of the deposition taken at the Law offices of Reed Smith in Pittsburgh, in the Commonwealth of […]
District Attorney’s Letter to Judicial Vicar
In a letter dated March 1, 2012, District Attorney John Peck wrote a letter to Reverend Msgr’s Cariglio and Polando regarding Reverend Mark Gruber. According to a source, the letter “supports several of Father Mark Gruber’s claims”.
