The seminarian is told that "there is no going back" and is asked to make "the most guttural scream you can possibly make"

Go out there, and make sure the [other] guys see you with the blood, but you don’t tell them what’s going on.

Other images seen by The Pillar show seminarians seated on a sofa with their mouths taped closed.

“We found no crime has been committed,” the priest reported to the seminary community. “Fr. John will resume his responsibilities as professor at the seminary. He will also continue with his administrative responsibilities as Vice-Rector.

“I ask for the good of all you not to discuss [sic] this matter among yourselves or with others,”

One senior archdiocesan priest told The Pillar that “it looks and feels to many of us like the real concern was not what went on, but that people talked about it.”