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March 26, 2014 By Ben Grove
With a court deadline looming Thursday, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has asked for an extra 90 days its effort to gather and disclose new documents related to priests suspected of sexual abuse.
The archdiocese is also seeking new protections that would limit public access to the documents, the Star Tribune reports.
At issue are documents on about 40 priests who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing children from 1970 to the present.
“This is an exhaustive, time consuming and extremely expensive and burdensome process,” lawyers for the archdiocese said a court document filed this week.
A Ramsey County District Court judge on Thursday is expected to hear arguments from archdiocese lawyers about why they need more time, and why they seek to keep under wraps the sworn testimonies of Archbishop John Nienstedt and former vicar general Kevin McDonough, the archdiocese’s point person on priest abuse, the Star Tribune reports.
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