Rev. Mark Gruber’s Letter to District Attorney
District Attorney Peck, The undersigned writes to apprise you of a potential misdemeanour under Pennsylvania State Law, and by virtue of this letter of notification, wishes to ensure his personal compliance with provisions enacted under Pennsylvania Child Protective Services Law (Pa. C.S. ss 6301-6319, dated May 28, 2007) [hereinafter referred to as the statute] within […]
David Hemmerling & New Directions
If you were a member of the New Directions Program at either Saint Vincent’s College or Northwest Missouri State University, please contact the webmaster.
Letter to Tobin re Nowicki’s Perceived Bribe
The sly tone of voice combined with his unexpected and uninvited persistence in discussing Adam’s attending St. Vincent College made me suddenly aware that Nowicki never intended to discuss the copycat crime or anything else regarding the problems at Serra Catholic. My perception was that he was essentially offering me a bribe — to send […]
The Prophet
[Webmaster’s Note: At the age of 19, Rembert Weakland joined St. Vincent Archabbey on September 23, 1946. Weakland was later elevated to Archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey (1963-1967), Abbot Primate (1967-1977) and Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1977-2002). According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a deposition released in 2009 reveals that Weakland shredded reports about sexual […]
Did Archabbot Douglas Nowicki offer a bribe to protect Cardinal Wuerl?
In a 2009 article (below), Mike Ference suggests that Archabbot Douglas Nowicki offered him a university scholarship for his son Adam Ference to buy his silence to protect the then Bishop of Pittsburgh, Donald Wuerl in an attempt to protect pedophiles in the Pittsburgh Diocese. Adam Ference was shot in the back of the head […]
Lawsuit Filed Against Saint Vincent Archabbey
The Catholic Church’s process for investigating allegations of abuse is doing more harm than good. Those making allegations are never allowed to speak to the review board that makes findings and recommendations, are never told the results, and are denied access to independent therapeutic care. Instead of being helped, they are being re-victimized.
The Original Decree Concerning Father Mark Gruber
DECREES that the following permanent penalties be imposed on Rev. Gruber:
Suspended St. Vincent Professor Drops Suit against College
A Roman Catholic priest and professor at St. Vincent College, suspended for allegedly downloading child pornography on a school computer, has dropped a defamation lawsuit against the school and diocese officials after undergoing a nine-hour deposition by college attorneys.
Looking the Other Way
When last we left the saga of the Rev. Mark Gruber and Saint Vincent College, the monk and professor had been barred from the campus and stripped of all his duties after college officials accused him of downloading child pornography on a computer outside his office that many students and staff members used. Local police […]
Saint Vincent College and the Illusion of Pedophilia
It has now apparently become public that more than one individual had come forward and admitted to planting pornography on his work computer–pornography that would later cost Father Mark his job and standing as a priest. We should keep in mind that the now-resigned College president, James Towey, is a former Bush White House insider […]
Priest sues diocesan, college officials for libel
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)
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 […]
Weakland shredded copies of sex abuse reports, documents say
Former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland routinely shredded copies of weekly reports about sexual abuse by priests, according to formerly sealed testimony turned over to Milwaukee County’s district attorney on Thursday.
