MICHIGAN
WOOD
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — A Catholic official accused of covering up sexual misconduct will start working at St. Philip Parish in Battle Creek.
According to the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Archbishop Emeritus John Nienstedt volunteered to help Father John, who has ‘ongoing serious health challenges.’ The Diocese of Kalamazoo said Nienstedt moved to Battle Creek on Jan. 6. He’s expected to stay in Battle Creek for approximately six months.
Nienstedt resigned from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis last year after several accusations and charges of covering up sexual misconduct surfaced. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Nienstedt’s archdiocese became first in the nation to be charged with failure to “protect children.”
“One of the priests in his archdiocese in Minneapolis is in prison now for molesting kids in that diocese and he concealed that. This is the first archdiocese to have criminal charges against them for concealing child sex abuse. As a result of that, he resigned from that archdiocese,” said Bill McAlary, a Michigan leader of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
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