MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 02/14/2014
A day after releasing a financial report that pledged greater accountability, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis has filed a motion to prevent depositions of two top officials and “sweeping disclosures” regarding priests accused of sexual abuse.
Church officials want Ramsey County District Judge John Van de North to stay his Tuesday decision allowing the depositions of Archbishop John Nienstedt, former Vicar General Kevin McDonough and accused priest Rev. John Brown, while the archdiocese prepares to appeal to a higher court.
The archdiocese also wants Van de North to stay his order, pending the appeal, that it provide names and other information of priests accused of child sexual abuse since 2004.
In the motion, filed in Ramsey County District Court late Thursday, the archdiocese said the “legal basis for the broad discovery permitted and the disclosures ordered by the court are highly questionable” and “cannot be undone once they are made by the archdiocese.”
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