MINNESOTA
MinnPost
By Brian Lambert
In the PiPress, Richard Chin reports that St. Paul police are denying a KSTP-TV report that Archbishop John Nienstedt and other high-level church figures are under criminal investigation: “Police previously declined to comment on whether the investigation was targeting additional priests. On Wednesday, Padilla denied media reports that Archbishop John Nienstedt and the Rev. Peter Laird, former archdiocese vicar general, are part of the investigation. ‘At this moment, at this time that we’re speaking, Archbishop John Nienstedt and former vicar general Father Peter Laird are not the focus of investigation as we sit here and talk,’ Padilla said. ‘Does that mean they won’t be later on? It does not. What it means is they aren’t at this moment.’ He said the two are ‘not the center of our investigation at this time, and as a matter of fact, at this moment as we stand here this day, they’re not being investigated.’ But Padilla also said, ‘We are not going to limit the focus of this investigation.’ ”
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