MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Peter Cox Jan 13, 2016
Archbishop John Nienstedt, who stepped down in June as head of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, has taken on a temporary pastoral role at a church in Battle Creek, Mich.
Nienstedt resigned the Twin Cities post after Ramsey County prosecutors charged the
The charge followed two years of revelations about the failure of the archdiocese to protect children from sexual abuse at the hands of clergy. Nienstedt, who served eight years as Twin Cities archbishop, admitted no mistakes in his resignation letter.
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, said Nienstedt should’ve been defrocked, not reassigned.
“This move sends precisely the wrong message to Catholic employees,” he said. “The message it sends is, no matter how severe your wrongdoing is, you’ll always have a job in the Catholic Church.”
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