MINNESOTA
KARE
[with video]
Lindsey Seavert, KARE April 24, 2014
SAINT PAUL – The deposition of Father Kevin McDonough, the former Vicar General of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, will be publicly released Thursday.
Attorney Jeff Anderson and his associates are expected to release video and transcripts of the deposition as part of a civil lawsuit Thursday morning.
Father Kevin McDonough served 17 years as the Vicar General, a position declaring him the second most powerful man in the Archdiocese. Records show he has served as a priest at Peter Claver Church in St. Paul since 1990.
“He is warm hearted, affable, friendly, decent sort of fellow, that is the reputation he has. That’s the way he comes off in public,” said Dr. Charles Reid, a University of St. Thomas professor specializing in canon law.
The deposition will offer a glimpse of McDonough behind closed doors, just two days after Anderson’s office released Nienstedt’s deposition. Nienstedt testified McDonough was responsible for major judgment calls within the Archdiocese, and told attorneys McDonough advised him not to put certain situations in writing.
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