Monk alleges abuse - and retaliation - at Silverstream Priory

A Pillar longread

Almost nothing about Fr. Benedict Andersen’s experience of the Catholic Church has been typical. 

He was baptized a Catholic, but raised in evangelical communities, and spent most of his twenties in the Orthodox Church. He became a priest in 2014, but was never formally a Catholic seminarian, and was not yet a solemnly professed member of his monastery w…