Talk:Ryan St. Anne Scott/Statement

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Abbot Ryan St. Anne Scott, OSB (1953), born Randall Dean Stocks, is a traditional Roman Catholic ~Priest currently living in Galesburg, Illinois. In August of 2003 they converted a former hospital into Holy Rosary Abbey, an independent Benedictine monastery. Abbot Ryan St. Anne, OSB belongs to a Catholic organization that does not recognize the changes that took place in the Conciliar Catholic Church of Vatican II, such as the elimination of the Latin Mass. The members of the Abbey are like-minded traditionalist Catholics.

Overview

Abbot Ryan St. Anne, OSB grew up in northern Illinois in a Catholic family. At the age of 18 he was married in a civil service, divorced, and put up the child up for adoption. He said he did so at the instruction of a Catholic priest so as not to jeopardize his conversion to the Catholic Church and his ordination.[1] Scott was a seminarian at St. Ambrose Seminary in Davenport, Iowa. Officials at the seminary said they had no record of Scott's attendance there (the church removed all documents pertaining to Scott). Scott was gang-raped by a group of priests in 1976 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1976 Scott joined a Franciscan order in Iowa and then another in London, Ontario. He was asked to start a traditional community within an existing Catholic parish in Darlington, Wisconsin but was ordered to end his efforts by church officials after they discovered who he really was. Scott was also an associate of Father Alfred Kunz, a traditionalist Catholic priest who was murdered in his church in 1998. Scott referred to Kunz as "my confessor, spiritual director, friend, and colleague" and attributed Kunz's murder to his investigation of the sexual abuse scandals in the diocese.

Scott took a job as finance director of Edgerton, Wisconsin in 1992. He pleaded guilty in 1993 to felony misconduct in. He was sentenced to two years of probation.

Ordination and priesthood Scott was ordained in 1993 by the American Catholic Church, which is part of the traditionalist Catholic movement and not allied with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1996, he said, his ordination was validated by a retired Roman Catholic archbishop in Dubuque, Iowa. However, church officials in Dubuque said he has since died. He has relocated Holy Rosary Abbey in the past to accommodate growth, among them Rising Sun, Wisconsin; Pocahontas, Iowa, and Powers Lake, North Dakota. In 2003, Abbot Ryan St. Anne, members of the Abbey and Benefactors of the Shrine accused the board of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Prairies in Powers Lake of fraud and financial misconduct. This can be verified through the Federal Forensic Fraud Audit that was completed by FraudWise, a Division of Eide Bailly, LLP of Fargo, North Dakota.

In Galesburg, the Monks and Nuns of the Abbey rise before dawn for prayers and the Mass in Latin. The building is largely restricted to those who have taken a monastic vow of silence.

External Links

HolyRosaryAbbey.com, The Abbeys Web site.

(Part of statement removed that can only be used when published in a reliable, third party source, per WP:BLP. An important reason why the material cannot be used is the fact that it applies more to third parties rather than the article's subject himself.) AvB &divide; talk  18:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)