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Battle Creek Enquirer

Safiya Merchant, Battle Creek Enquirer January 14, 2016

An archbishop emeritus who left the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis amid reports that its leaders failed to adequately deal with priests accused of sexual misconduct is now temporarily helping out at St. Philip Catholic Church in Battle Creek.

Nienstedt served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis from 2008 to 2015.

A Minnesota Public Radio investigation alleged leaders of that archdiocese have been “reassigning, excusing and overlooking sexually abusive priests among their ranks” for decades.

During Nienstedt’s tenure at the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, he had “authorized secret payments to priests who had sexually abused children, did not report alleged sex crimes to police and failed to warn parishioners” about the “sexual misconduct” of former St. Paul priest Curtis Wehmeyer, who was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing two…