St. John’s review board member resigns - St. Cloud Times - Aug. 18, 2006 ... Pat Marker ... resigned in protest Friday from an external review board formed as part of St. John’s Abbey’s response to a clergy sexual abuse scandal. Last month, the abbey publicized allegations of sexual misconduct in the 1970s and 1980s that were made against three of its monks, one of whom has died. The accusations against the Revs. Michael Bik, Bruce Wollmering and Robert Blumeyer were made months to years before the abbey’s July 28 announcement... ''The delays in disclosure, and more so the delays in notifying potential victims where these men worked, was part of the reason why I felt I must resign,'' Marker said... Allegations against Bik were made in 1997. He was accused of misconduct with two teen-age boys in the 1970s, before he joined the abbey and before his ordination... Wollmering, 65, was accused in 2004 of sexual harassment by a former St. John’s University student. The former student said the misconduct started in 1984. Wollmering was chairman of the psychology department at St. John’s at the time and may have counseled other students. He retired from the faculty in 2004... Accusations against the late Blumeyer were made in September. They involve a teen-age boy he knew when he was an assistant pastor at a Wayzata parish in 1969. ''Their names should have been turned over to the public, if not the authorities, long ago, because there were plenty of warning signs,'' Marker said. ''And there are warning signs now that things are still going on there with other monks.'' ...
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