[TChad]

...I'll ask what all these queer priests have already cost everybody - their victims, the Catholic faithful, the scandalized outsiders?

Ignoring the huge non-financial costs, the dollar figure that keeps coming up is >$1 billion.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/clergy_sex21.htm

[Emmett McCarthy]

I am more concerned with those huge non-financial costs than anything else, but the billion is significant because, after all, money is how the world "keeps score" and it gives the forces of evil aid and comfort to have run up that score. In actuality, though, the money is just money and doesn't really matter.