Boniface Ramsey

J. Boniface Ramsey (born October 6, 1945) is an American Catholic priest who was ordained in 1973 as a member of the Dominican Order. From 1987 to 1996 Ramsey was a professor at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University.

Life From 1987 to 1996 Ramsey was a professor at Immaculate Conception Seminary (which serves the archdiocese of Newark). Ramsey was a member of the "voting faculty" that could express a formal opinion as to whether a student should be promoted to the next year. According to Ramsey, in the early 1990s, Theodore McCarrick, then Archbishop of Newark, removed Ramsey's voting prerogative because Ramsey was instrumental in the expulsion of one of the seminarians.

In November 2000, Ramsey wrote the Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, D.C., Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, regarding rumors of inappropriate conduct on the part of McCarrick's with seminarians. (As a Dominican, rather than a diocesan priest, Ramsey was not under McCarrick's immediate supervision.) Ramsey had heard reports that the Archbishop was in the practice of inviting five seminarians to his beach house, which only had five beds, and sharing a bed with one of the seminarians. " I never heard that McCarrick touched anyone", said Ramsey.

He said that "McCarrick’s behavior was viewed by many as “odd” or even “crazy,” but not necessarily immoral...The term, ‘sexual harassment,’” had not gained currency, and the seminary administrators didn’t know how to react". Ramsey received no response from Montalvo, but a letter sent to him in October 2006 from the Vatican by Archbishop Leonardo Sandri indicated that his complaint had been received by Montalvo and been forwarded to the Vatican. Ramsey believes that between 2006 and 2015, there were those in the Vatican attempting to build a case against McCarrick.

Publications Beginning to Read the Fathers (Paulist Press, 1985) Ambrose (Routledge, 1997) (introduction) The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love (New City Press, 1999) (introduction), Soliloquies: Augustine's Inner Dialogue (New City Press) Beginning to Read the Fathers, Revised Edition (Paulist Press, 2012) Translations Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP, 1989 (ACW 50) Joseph Ratzinger, "In the Beginning…": A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall (Eerdmans, 1995) John Cassian. The Conferences, translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP, 1997 (ACW 57) John Cassian. The Institutes, translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, OP, 2000 (ACW 58) Benedict XVI, The Unity of the Nations (2015)