Minnesota and then Michigan evidently grew
too hot for John Nienstedt, a former Catholic archbishop who was accused
of protecting predatory priests and who now cools his heels in Wine
Country.
Nienstedt came far
west after departing Minnesota under duress and stopping briefly in
Michigan. A newspaper report out of Battle Creek earlier this year
revealed that only two weeks after Nienstedt arrived and took a
temporary church post there he “left amid a swirl of criticism.”
Residents opposed to his assignment hounded the diocese and the media,
and pulled tuition support for a school associated with the church,
according to another news report.