DETROIT (MI)
Metro Times
March 20, 2019
By Michael Betzold
It didn’t look like anyone was living at the home north of Port Huron — no cars in the driveway, no tire tracks in what was left of the snow and ice.
Looking through a screen, I saw two pairs of boots on the floor, the corner of a treadmill, and a chair and table. Just as I was going to leave, he got up from the table, clutching a copy of Inside the Vatican magazine.
Suddenly I was face to face with Archbishop John Nienstedt.
He looked surprised but confirmed who he was — then when I started asking questions, he quickly murmured “no, thank you” and shut the door in my face.
Archbishop John Nienstedt. Named as one of the Catholic Church’s five top offenders in the entire world who most deserve to be expelled from the priesthood.
Archbishop John Nienstedt. Resigned after a legal settlement that bankrupted the archdiocese he ran in Minnesota because of its cover-up of perpetrator priests.
Archbishop John Nienstedt. Hounded out of Battle Creek by angry parishioners.
Archbishop John Nienstedt. Unwelcome to remain even at right-wing California think tank the Napa Institute.
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