MICHIGAN
MLive
By Rosemary Parker | rparker3@mlive.com
on January 27, 2016
KALAMAZOO, MI — Victims of sexual abuse by priests and their supporters staged a demonstration here Tuesday to show they are not satisfied with the swift removal last week of a controversial Roman Catholic archbishop from the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul who had come to a parish in Battle Creek.
Archbishop John Nienstedt resigned from his archdiocese in June after it was hit with civil and criminal charges that church officials had repeatedly failed to act on complaints of a priest who was eventually convicted of molesting three boys.
Nienstedt arrived at St. Philip parish in Battle Creek Jan. 6 at the invitation of the pastor there and had planned to stay six months, voluntarily helping out the Rev. John Fleckenstein, an old friend.
The Diocese of Kalamazoo initially had approved Nienstedt’s work here, citing documentation from his superiors that he was a priest in good standing.
But the archbishop moved on on Jan. 21 after parents, community members and victims of clergy sex crimes protested his presence.
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