Archive for Abbey History

Churches full of sinners, of course

Two sexual molestation lawsuits against yet another Catholic institution surfaced late this summer. Bede Parry was a priest and director for a boys’ choir at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo., about 17 miles southeast of Maryville. While supervising a boys’ choir camp in 1987, he allegedly engaged in sexual relations with a minor.

 

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Conception Abbey History

But for the persistence of an Irish-American missionary named Father James Power, Conception Abbey may never have existed.

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