MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
Article by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune Updated: May 28, 2014
‘Leaders have a responsibility to be accountable,’ the Rev. Peter Laird said in deposition.
Archbishop John Nienstedt should consider resigning in light of the clergy sex abuse scandal , the former archdiocese vicar general suggested last fall.
The suggestion was one of several ideas that the Rev. Peter Laird said he laid out to the Twin Cities archbishop, according to a court deposition of Laird made public Wednesday.
Laird said he suggested the resignation option twice as the archdiocese struggled to respond to allegations that it mishandled clergy accused of abusing minors.
“I think leaders have a responsibility to be accountable for decisions whenever they take place in an organization and — and to signal trust … and that the archdiocese doesn’t have anything to hide,” said Laird in the May 12 deposition.
Laird himself resigned not long afterward.
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