A priest is leaving a Battle Creek parish as some members of the
southwestern Michigan diocese became angered to learn that he led a
Minnesota archdiocese during a clergy sex abuse scandal.
Pastor John Fleckenstein wrote in a letter Thursday to members of St. Philip Catholic Church that Archbishop John Nienstedt decided to discontinue his work there “in light of the unintended discord that his presence was causing.”
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/01/21/nienstedt-leaves-michigan-diocese-amid-parish-turmoil/
Pastor John Fleckenstein wrote in a letter Thursday to members of St. Philip Catholic Church that Archbishop John Nienstedt decided to discontinue his work there “in light of the unintended discord that his presence was causing.”
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/01/21/nienstedt-leaves-michigan-diocese-amid-parish-turmoil/
