ST. PAUL — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis plans to petition a bankruptcy court to ask for more time to submit a reorganization plan because of the large number of clergy abuse claims that have been filed.

Attorneys for the archdiocese plan to ask a bankruptcy judge on Thursday for a second extension of a deadline on filing that reorganization plan, hoping it will be pushed back from Nov. 30 to May 31, 2016, according to the Star Tribune.

“There remains a number of difficult issues to be resolved before completion of the mediation process,” the archdiocese stated in its motion before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel. “As of the filing of this motion, 717 claims, including 416 claims alleging liability for sexual abuse, have been filed in this case. Each of these sexual abuse claims must be analyzed and negotiated by various constituencies . as part of the mediation process.”

The archdiocese has had less than three months to examine all the claims that poured in by an Aug. 3 deadline. The archdiocese originally planned to file a reorganization plan by July 16 and the court approved an extension to Nov. 30.