Abbot Giles Hayes, OSB, President-Elect of CMSM
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Benedictine Father Giles Hayes elected St. Mary Abbey’s 10th abbot
MORRISTOWN – The Benedictine monastic chapter at St. Mary’s Abbey here elected Benedictine Father Giles P. Hayes as its 10th abbot on March 8.
Delbarton alumnus files sex abuse suit
A 45-year-old Washington State man has claimed in a lawsuit that he now has a vivid memory of being molested 28 years ago by a Benedictine monk when he was a student at the private Delbarton School in Morris Township.
The Vatican Removes 6 Priests
Patrick Quigley, who pleaded guilty in the early 1990’s to soliciting adolescent boys for sex in Rockland County, was a priest in Manhattan, Staten Island and Rockland County.
4 former Island priests defrocked by the Church
Patrick Quigley, ordained in 1981, had previously pleaded guilty in 1994 to a misdemeanor charge after admitting he had offered three young boys money for oral sex in Haverstraw Village in Rockland County.
