BOSTON -- Cardinal Bernard Law was deposed for the second time in the case of retired priest and accused pedophile Paul Shanley Friday. The videotape of Law's first day of deposition, taken Wednesday, was expected to be released publicly, but the archdiocese has gone to court to stop it.

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NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda reported that Law faced three hours of questioning at the office of attorney Eric MacLeish.

The cardinal's spokesman, the Rev. Christopher Coyne, said that there was nothing out of the ordinary from Friday's session.

"It was very professional. Mr. MacLeish asked all the questions. The cardinal sat directly across from him, and the cardinal responded as best he could to the questions posed to him," Coyne said.

But for the parents of alleged victim Greg Ford, the deposition was more evidence of a failure to take responsibility.

"The fact of the matter is that there was a secret file and it appears, to us, after having listened to him for three hours, that the file was only kept secret from themselves," Greg Ford's mother, Paula, said. "The records were there. They chose not to read them."

"I hate to use this analogy of 'Ripley's Believe or Not,' but this is Cardinal Law's believe it or not, and I don't," Greg Ford's father, Rodney, said.

MacLeish was outraged from the effort to stop the release of the deposition.

"Why did the Archdiocese of Boston not do this, undertake to suppress and gag and silence what had happened in that deposition? Why was it not done on May 28? Why is it being done at the conclusion of the cardinal's deposition? This is not the way that lawsuits are supposed to work," MacLeish said.

There was an afternoon hearing before the Appeals Court. The court said that it will rule on the issue sometime next week.