New documents released in a clergy sexual abuse
lawsuit show that a former high-ranking church official intervened to
help a prominent University of St. Thomas priest accused of sexual
misconduct perform a wedding out of state. The Rev. Michael Keating was turned down when he first asked officials of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to verify in writing that he had “never been accused of any act of sexual abuse or sexual misconduct involving a minor.”
