MINNESOTA
Herald Sun (Australia)
AAP
THE archbishop of St Paul, Minnesota, and a deputy bishop have resigned after prosecutors there charged the archdiocese with having failed to protect children from unspeakable harm from a pedophile priest.
THE Vatican said on Monday that Pope Francis had accepted the resignations of Archbishop John Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee Anthony Piche.
They resigned under the code of canon law that allows bishops to resign before they retire because of illness or some other “grave” reason that makes them unfit for office.
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