Vigano, Steelers Alerted to Sexual Abuse in 2012

Following a June 30, 2012 conversation with Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States during his visit to the Greensburg Diocese, a letter dated July 19 [View as PDF] alerted Mr. Arthur. J. Rooney, II and two other members of of the Pittsburgh Steelers organization making them fully aware of a long (and still […]

Letter to Dr. Sturdivant

Given that the following were recipients of the email, any attempt by those named forthwith defending their failure to act is churlish and completely unacceptable. Four Local Roman Catholic Bishops: Brandt, Zubik, Waltershield, and Persico, now the Bishop of Erie; the Catholic Bishop of Richmond, Virgina, was also was a recipient, along with those specifically […]

Letter to Bishop Brandt

In undertaking these steps, you will finally comply with the dictates of the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Thereby, you can make some atonement for your lamentable, and inexplicable failure to act in the past; thereby putting vulnerable persons in the gravest of potential harm. To bring matters into perspective, in light of the scandal […]

Letter Regarding Power of 32 Steering Committee Member Douglas Nowicki

I trust result in Archabbot Nowicki being invited to step down as a member of the Steering Committee of this noble organisation until a public exoneration made by the appropriate authority, which in this case is the Congregation for Religious in Rome is publicly disseminated. H.E Archbishop Viganò, as the interlocutor of the Holy See […]

Letter to Steelers Regarding Douglas Nowicki

Dear Mr. Rooney, Last month I visited Saint Vincent Archabbey after months of researching allegations of misconduct by members of its Benedictine monastic community. I have conducted or have been involved with similar investigations since coming forward in 1989 as a victim of sexual abuse by a monk at Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.