US bishop quits after archdiocese charged
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The embattled archbishop of St Paul and Minneapolis and a deputy bishop resigned yesterday after prosecutors there charged the archdiocese with having failed to protect children from unspeakable harm from a pedophile priest.
The Vatican said Pope Francis 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 鈥済rave鈥 reason that makes them unfit for office.
Earlier this month, prosecutors charged the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis as a corporation of having 鈥渢urned a blind eye鈥 to repeated reports of inappropriate behavior by a priest who was later convicted of molesting two boys. No one was named in the complaint.
The resignations came on the same day that the Vatican announced it was putting its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, on trial in a Vatican court on charges he sexually abused boys in the Caribbean country and possessed child pornography. Wesolowski, who has already been defrocked after being convicted in a canon law court, now faces possible jail time if convicted by the criminal tribunal of the Vatican City State.
The charges against the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis came after a diocesan canon lawyer-turned-whistleblower alleged widespread cover-up of clergy sex misconduct in the archdiocese, saying archbishops and their top staff lied to the public and ignored the United States bishops鈥 pledge to have no tolerance of priests who abuse.
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