MINNESOTA
The Progressive Catholic Voice
By Bob Beutel
Note: On November 9, 2013 approximately 200 Catholics gathered outside the chancery of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis to call on Archbishop John C. Nienstedt to resign. One of the speakers at this event was Bob Beutel (right), co-chair of the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (CCCR). Following is the transcript of Bob’s speech.
We are here today to express the faithful’s loss of confidence in the administration of Archbishop John Nienstedt and to ask for his resignation.
We won’t recite the litany of our issues with him, but they can be summarized as follows.:
He sows division among Catholics and among the public at large by excluding members of the GLBT community, women, abuse victims,and critics.
He intimidates his priests, his staffers, his critics, and the victims and survivors of clergy sex abuse.
He wastes our money on partisan political campaigns and holds himself unaccountable despite a pledge to be transparent.
He has embarrassed and shamed our holy Church.
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