R. Walker Nickless

[1] On February 27, 2019, Nickless released a list of 28 priests with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors, going back to the founding of the diocese in 1902.

[4] In October 2013, it was reported that the diocese had withheld information from parishioners regarding the arrest of Reverend John Wind five years earlier.

Wind later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, was sent away for mental health treatment, and then returned to parish work.

In August 2009, Nickless stated that "the Catholic Church does not teach that government should directly provide health care.

"[8] Rather, he wrote,"[t]he proper role of the government is to regulate the private sector, in order to foster healthy competition and to curtail abuses.

In it, he characterized an Obama Administration initiative to require health insurers to provide birth control coverage as having been sponsored by "the power of evil," and called for "followers of the light" to "stand up and vehemently oppose this.