MINNESOTA/MICHIGAN
Battle Creek Enquirer

DAVID CLOHESSY, GUEST COMMENTARY January 15, 2016

He is accused of making “unwanted sexual advances” toward seminarians, retaliating against one who rebuffed him, interfering with a church sexual misconduct investigation and concealing the crimes of predator priests.

But he’s good enough for western Michigan Catholics, at least in the view of Kalamazoo’s Catholic bishop.

He’s Archbishop John Nienstedt, a Michigan native who is one of only three U.S. prelates to resign from his post because of the church’s abuse and cover-up crisis.

The archdiocese he headed for seven years, St. Paul-Minneapolis, is the first in the nation to be charged with failure to protect children.

Exactly why did Nienstedt step down? Because he won’t talk, nor will his church colleagues in the United States or in Rome, no one really knows.

Was it because his archdiocese faces pending criminal charges for shielding the Rev. Curtis…