Priest sues diocesan, college officials for libel

Posted by on Sep 4, 2010 in All, Douglas Nowicki, James Towey, Mark Gruber | No Comments

A priest at St. Vincent College filed a libel suit Friday in Westmoreland County against officials of the Greensburg Catholic Diocese and St. Vincent College, alleging they falsely accused him of being a pedophile even though he was exonerated by state police.

Affidavit of Former Student re Porn (4/1/2011)

Posted by on Apr 1, 2010 in All, Douglas Nowicki, Mark Gruber | No Comments

With regard to what was revealed by me in confession l can incontrovertibly state that Fr. Mark Gruber has never violated the sacramental seal, but rather he has defended it to the point of jeopardizing and losing his teaching career, and to support being wrongly accused of canonical delicts that he has not committed, and […]

Letter to Nowicki (re Ubinger & Markowicz)

March 21, 2010 Archabbot Douglas Nowicki Saint Vincent Archabbey Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Fear and Loathing at St. Vincent College

I attended St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (hometown of legendary golfer Arnold Palmer and once the home of Rolling Rock beer). When I was there, 1963-1967, it was a decent liberal arts college, about as liberal as a Catholic school could be. Keynes ruled the economics department. When the monk who taught Anthropology decided […]

Protecting a Punished Professor

When most of Saint Vincent College’s tenured faculty members voted last year to criticize President James Towey’s management of the Benedictine college, most professors were so nervous about retribution that few were willing to discuss their concerns in public. The Rev. Mark Gruber was an exception, and he may be paying a price for that […]

Notarized Statement Re Nowicki’s Misconduct

Posted by on Nov 29, 2009 in All, Douglas Nowicki, Rembert Weakland | No Comments

The first class I ever had at Saint Vincent was redacted taught by Fr. redacted OSB at 0830 in the redacted. I did not like redacted much, but was very touched and inspired by Fr. redacted priestly example. I would remain close with him during my time as a collegian and as a monk at Saint Vincent. It […]