Benedictine Society nearly dissolved high school

Posted on Mar 2, 2011 in All, Hugh Anderson, Luke Travers | No Comments

Two years ago, the Benedictine Society of Virginia called in a management adviser to dissolve Benedictine High School, the Catholic military academy that the society operates in Richmond.

Email Regarding Benedictine High School (Travers)

Posted on Feb 19, 2011 in All, Benedictine Prep (VA), Luke Travers | No Comments

We believe in considering the potential move that it serves the best interests of our current and future students as well as the long-term success of Benedictine High School as a Richmond institution. We deeply love and respect Benedictine’s legacy as a treasured educational institution and are dedicated to serving the people of Richmond for […]

Abbot Giles Hayes, OSB, President-Elect of CMSM

Posted on Sep 7, 2010 in All, CMSM, Giles Hayes | No Comments

Right Rev. Giles P. Hayes, OSB, Abbot of St. Mary’s Abbey, Morristown, has recently been named President-Elect of the national Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM).

Religious Praise Vatican Appointment

Posted on Aug 20, 2010 in All, CMSM, Giles Hayes | No Comments

Saying he hopes to offer Rome a “different picture” of women religious in the United States, the Vatican’s new No. 2 official for religious life says he suspects the choice of an American for that job, and one known to be sympathetic to women religious, may reflect awareness of “just how badly” a Vatican investigation […]

Benedictine abbey to have new temporary administrator

Posted on Jun 28, 2010 in All, Giles Hayes, Luke Travers, Timothy Kelly | No Comments

Father Luke Travers, a Benedictine monk of St. Mary’s Abbey in Morristown, NJ, has been appointed administrator of Mary Mother of the Church Abbey in Richmond.

Travers: Overseeing High School

I love Richmond, and also feel this is a monastery with some potential. The [high] school is a military school (can you believe me in charge of that?) – Luke Travers – Summer, 2010 Rev. Luke Travers, O.S.B. sends the following, “About a year and four months ago, I was hired to be a financial […]

Ugliano… Didn’t they do that already?

Posted on Mar 15, 2010 in All, Bruno Ugliano | No Comments

What was shocking to me was not that it had happened, but that it has just happened. [Rev. Bruno Ugliano] had been transferred from my parish at a time when there was already widespread talk about his behavior when I was a young teenager more than 20 years ago! In fact, the first response I […]

Newark Archdiocese donates church supplies

Posted on Mar 10, 2010 in All, Benedict Worry | No Comments

LINDEN — Most of the aid sent to Haiti since the January earthquake is meant to nourish the bodies of survivors. An unusual donation from the Newark Archdiocese is meant to nourish their spirits.

Flavin & Lott

Posted on Sep 16, 2009 in All, Richard Lott, Robert Flavin | No Comments

Delbarton School Private school in Morris Township run and operated by Benedictine monks of St. Mary’s Abbey in Morristown, for grades 7-12.

Ex-Archbishop Speaks About Catholic Church and Homosexuality

Posted on May 14, 2009 in All, Rembert G. Weakland | No Comments

In spring 2002, as the scandal over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was escalating, the long career of Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee, one of the church’s most venerable voices for change, went up in flames one May morning.

Luke Travers Appointed Subprior

Posted on Jan 3, 2009 in All, Giles Hayes, Luke Travers | No Comments

In the spring, Fr. Luke Travers, O.S.B., was appointed subprior by Abbot Giles. Like Abbot Giles, Fr. Luke has joined the Finance Committee of the CMSM. He was also named Vice-Chair of the Board of Regents of Portsmouth Abbey School.

Rembert G. Weakland Coverage

Posted on Oct 16, 2008 in All, Rembert G. Weakland | No Comments

Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee was one of the Catholic Church’s most venerable voices for change until 2002 when he resigned amid revelations that he had used church money to pay a $450,000 settlement to a man with whom he had had a relationship years earlier.

Portsmouth Abbey School – Board of Regents

Posted on Jun 6, 2008 in All, Luke Travers | No Comments

Portsmouth Abbey School is a coeducational, Catholic Benedictine boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. Founded in 1926 by the English Benedictine community, the School is located on a 500-acre campus along the picturesque shores of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.

Clergy Abuse Survivors Kicked Out of Church

No one knows whether James Kelly’s suicide last October in front of an NJ Transit train in Morristown, stemmed from the childhood sexual abuse he endured by a Mendham, priest or from other personal problems.

Graduation 2007

Posted on Jun 4, 2007 in All, Giles Hayes, Luke Travers | No Comments

Abbot Giles Hayes, O.S.B. gave a stirring tribute to retiring headmaster Rev. Luke Travers, O.S.B. for his eight year tenure as headmaster, and awarded him a Delbarton Medal. The audience affirmed the Abbot’s tribute to Father Luke with a long, heart felt standing ovation.

Delbarton Alumnus Hasn’t Felt Welcome since Abuse Claims

Sheridan has said some people who were angry at first have since apologized. Others apparently continue to hold a grudge… Sheridan first went to Abbey officials in 1992 with allegations that a teacher named Robert Flavin exposed himself in 1981 when Sheridan, then 18, was home from college and visiting the Abbey. The deacon went […]

Lacrosse player receives medal

Posted on Apr 27, 2007 in All, Luke Travers | No Comments

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Less than two weeks after sexual offense charges were dropped against him and two Duke lacrosse teammates, Reade Seligmann received a medal from the exclusive prep school where he graduated in 2004.

Eamon Drew Ordained

Posted on Apr 14, 2007 in All, Eamon Drew | No Comments

An avid long distance runner, Father Drew taught mathematics and coached track at Delbarton School here before beginning his theological studies. On April 15, Father Drew celebrated Mass for the first time in the Abbey Church, here with the Morris Choral Society, under the direction of Wayne Walters, singing.

Two lacrosse players arrested in Duke rape case

Posted on Apr 19, 2006 in Luke Travers | No Comments

“It is our hope and our conviction that the full truth of all that happened that night will vindicate Reade of these charges,” – Rev. Luke L. Travers

Benedictine Father Giles Hayes elected St. Mary Abbey’s 10th abbot

Posted on Mar 9, 2006 in All, Giles Hayes, Timothy Kelly | No Comments

MORRISTOWN – The Benedictine monastic chapter at St. Mary’s Abbey here elected Benedictine Father Giles P. Hayes as its 10th abbot on March 8.