Summary of Francisco Shulte
Oh great. Brother Francisco couldn’t be ordained on time in the summer because he said he had a bad rash from the dry air and the ointment given to him made him drowsy and sleepy for a few weeks. (There’s no such ointment. A faculty member confronted him and said he was sedated. He was drowsy and falling asleep in class. Why didn’t his abbot follow up on this? More lack of oversight.)
The faculty were very hesitant to allow him permission to be ordained. He withdrew from St John’s School of Divinity.
Ask the abbot as a gift to buy him plane tickets from Puerto Rico to MN and then back to Puerto Rico. It appears that the abbot bought him a chalice instead when he was finally ordained in Puerto Rico. lol
Writes letter to his abbot in MN that he and Fr (name blacked out) have had a “falling out” in Puerto Rico because Fr. Francisco is one of the remaining Americans and unwanted. (huh?) Fr.(name blacked out) was one of his teachers at St. Johns in 10th and 11th grade. He took now Father Francisco to camp, to vocations, was with him at Notre Dame for something…yeah…you get the picture…Fr (name blacked out) was likely a Sandusky…Did they had a lover’s spat? Now Fr. Francisco is desperate to get out of Puerto Rico. He asks his abbot in St. Cloud to bring him back from Puerto Rico to MN
Fr Francisco loses another monk’s file and it was desperately wanted for some unknown reason. The file later appears. I wonder if everyone at St. John’s just assumed suspicious fr. Fransisco took it.
The abbot inquires about Fr. Francisco’s “condition.” He answers that it’s his unstable blood sugar that makes him have profuse sweating, dizziness and fainting. (Fascinating as those are the same symptoms of WITHDRAWAL.
Mysteriously $18,000 shows up in this indigent Puerto Rican monastery’s bank account and a crowd of employees have NO idea from where it came . Finally a priest remembers that this money came from an inheritance that he got…….lol…don’t think so.
Paying parents threaten a boycott of the private school where Fr Francisco is principal. Fr. Fran writes to his abbot that he doesn’t know why they even want to keep the damn (yes he chose that word) school open. The Puerto Rican Bishop then gets involved and takes over the school which St. John’s apparently operated. Fr. Fran resigns as principal.
The Minnesota abbot travels to Tokyo to assess the monastic life at St. Anselm’s.
He gets in a big fight with another monk because he is sure his ideas are most correct for the school. He sends a 3 page letter to the abbot who recalls him back to St. Cloud. (Fr. Fran has personality problems and drug or alcohol issues.)
Once back in cold Minnesota Fr. Fran sends a letter to the abbot about making a recruiting trip to the Dominican Republic and Venezuela….for a summer camp. The abbot let him go. He sent back a postcard. rofl
More narcissistic letters fighting with other monks and tattling on them to the abbot.
Fr. Fran isn’t happy at Collegeville either and starts looking for openings in Raleigh, NC.
He demands that the abbot buy him a newer car to drive to Raleigh, NC.
He writes NUMEROUS letters to the abbot which is good, but they are all whining . He was supposed to go to Raleigh to work with Hispanics. One news paper clipping even announces that he is coming to work with Hispanics. When he gets in Raleigh, he announces he doesn’t have enough time to work with Hispanics. rofl He wants to return to St. Cloud in a year. The Bishop has several ‘talks’ with him. Fr. Fran now says he’s mad at the Personell Board of the Diocese who misrepresented the facts to him
Then he decides he want to be a Navy Chaplain to be freed from parish obligations. lol
He begins to use his birth name instead of his tonsured name. The abbot continues to call him by his tonsured name.
Abbot Jerome wants to go to Japan to see if there is good land to build a monastery. lol
Somehow Fr. Fran doesn’t end up going to be a Navy chaplain. He ends up in Hispanic ministry wearing a Clint Eastwood The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shaw.
Then he end up back at St. Johns Univ. He decides to “get involved” with the prep school. He wants to stay on campus because he’s so bad with paper work.
Abbot jerome returns from a conference in the Bahamas. He just got back from traveling to Spain to explore exchange program alternative….I guess they don’t have phones in Spain.
Then Fr. Fran says he can only work 1/2 time at the prep school cuz being the chaplain there is just too much.
Then he decides to get his graduate degree. He goes to Univ of Mexico. He needs to learn the Aztec language Nahuati. rofl He hurts his knee and has to stay in North Carolina for weeks with him mommy.
Then he moves to Rome and two years later is still doing that important research in Mexico while residing in Rome. He writes the abbot a letter from ROME on how their is a youth ministry near his home in ROME that is desperate for a priest cuz there aren’t enough priests in Rome and Benedictine nuns need his presence. Abbot tells him that st. Johns is also short of monks and denies his request.
His graduate director leaves and THAT is why he just can’t get his thesis finished.
He’s desperate to stay in Italy and suggests that the abbot of St. Johns should establish a monastery there. Not kidding.
Now he writes to the abbot and says he has an early form of leukemia and has 12.5 years to live. Okaydokie. He must move back to Rome cuz he has to turn in his final draft and return his books. There’s no mail service in Italy I guess.
Two years later he gets his PhD.
He needs to go to Mexico for 5 weeks in the winter to be tutored in the Aztec language.
He starts up a big fight with an older monk using “I’m a victim” . Tries to make the old monk feel guilty by saying he had been moved around so much and lost his various friends/families from all the places he lived lol He was the one who always begged to move cuz he hated hard work, Hispanics, got in fights with people, and likely had to run away after molesting a child. Instead of accepting his assignment at St. Johns, he wants to dictate what he will and won’t do.
Another fight over getting a car for himself.
More fights with other monks. He gets angry and resigns at St. Johns.
Abbot writes letter about how Fr. Fran has to attend a 1-2 year therapy program. Knows he has been accused of sexual assault.
Abbot assigned him to Crookston Diocese. Fr. fran said he would stay in the rectory and not have contact with families.
Then he says he has been contacted by another monk about re-founding a monastic community in the Bahamas.’
The abbot signs a legal document for becoming a resident in the Bahamas saying he knows Fr. Fran and attests to his good character and the monastery will financially support him in the Bahamas. GRRRRR.
Fr Fran writes the abbot a letter explaining when he will leave for the Bahamas. He writes,” A one-way ticket, eh? What ever you say…..”
He writes to the abbot and asks that his debit card be reissued to him in the Bahamas.
He then writes many letters to the abbot whining about the other monks with who he works.
Then he has another big fight and wants to return to St. Johns.
He is finally asked to leave the monastery in the Bahamas. In the letter punting him, it’s revealed he spent his time painting a school (with little kids) instead of working on a marriage program and a Bible study program that he had been assigned.
Given the position to be the spiritual counselor @ St. Johns
2001-abbot tells someone operating St Johns that Fr. fran shouldn’t have that position and was essentially a very sneaky individual
In 2002, he apparently found someone to take him in Italy for 3 years to reflect on his future. He was accepted to be a founding member of the Institute for Guadalupan Studies. The new abbot John didn’t know about this appointment until after it happened. He sent a letter warning them about how he shouldn’t be with kids under 18.
In 2005, he was in Mexico City and he stayed at least until June. He was having his book translated.
In 2007, he was back in Italy.
In 2014, he was still at St. John’s, not following the rules, and still trying to avoid being an actual monk.