Is this true? Do you deny this allegation? Because, if you deny this allegation, I can produce evidence to the contrary that shows that you did make this request. I have further established that you considered them sufficiently serious that you decided to ask Dom Benedict Andersen, OSB, a monk and priest of Silverstream Priory, a monastery of Diocesan Right in the Diocese of Meath, for an exculpatory statement on behalf of Dom Purcell when you were one of the visitators of the Priory. I have established that you were aware of the allegations that I had made against Dom Richard Purcell. Purcell’s hamartia that brought disgrace to: a) his own abbacy and, b more seriously to Mount Melleray Abbey. Regrettably and inexplicably they did not explore the antecedents of Fr. Just imagine that!įor very sound reasons, I have asserted that the “Regular Visitation” was nothing more than a sham to beget an agreed outcome. Amazingly, they found that the allegations against Dom Purcell were “unfounded”. Richard Purcell the former Abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey, for “personal reasons”Īs I was the source of the allegations against Dom Richard Purcell, I have highlighted my surprise that I was not contacted by the two (2) Dutch-based visitators: Dom Bernardus Peeters, Abbot of Tilburg and Mother Pascale Fourmentin, Abbess of Arnhem, who conducted the Regular Visitation of Mount Melleray Abbey. I am working on the assumption that you will have heard about the recent resignation of Fr.
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