Archdiocese Battles to Raise Enough Money to Settle with Abuse Victims

Santa Fe New Mexican ^ | 12/19/21 | Rick Ruggles

[marshmallow]

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy efforts have plodded along for three years with no end visible in the case involving more than 400 clergy abuse victims.

Lawyers say three years is a comparatively long time for Chapter 11 proceedings but is far from unheard of. It’s in everyone’s interests — the archdiocese’s and the victims’ — to resolve it through Chapter 11, attorneys say. Therefore, an eventual settlement is still expected.

“The alternatives are so bad that it’s worth it to stay in the game,” Laura Coordes, associate professor of law at Arizona State University, said of Chapter 11.

The archdiocese seeks to raise an adequate sum, through property sales, donations and insurance, to reach settlements with the victims.

In a blog this month, Archbishop John Wester wrote: “We knew when we filed for Chapter 11 that it would not be easy. We are making progress, albeit slow progress. Please pray that this arduous and drawn-out process will bring healing to the victims of sexual abuse, to their families, our parishes and this local Church.”

Chapter 11 allows the entity in financial hardship to work with the claimants in search of a settlement.

Coordes and Albuquerque bankruptcy attorney Dave Giddens said the alternatives to a settlement typically would be for the case to be converted to Chapter 7 bankruptcy, in which a trustee would call the shots on the sale of assets. Or the case could be dismissed, and many victims then would file lawsuits individually.

Giddens, who is not involved in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe case, called three years in Chapter 11 bankruptcy relatively lengthy.

“Most of them don’t make it that long, if they’re going to make it,” he said.

[neverevergiveup]

Until the nominal head of the Church stops being a left wing ideologue pushing world socialism/Communism, I cannot in good conscience give the Church any money.

[Vermont Lt]

400 kids. In one moderate sized city. 400.

Now multiply that by every diocese in the country.

If that was any other “company” they would be out of business and conducting transaction from the backs of vegetable carts.

[Born to Conserve]

Hey, I’ve got an idea! Lets hire men to not be married, dress in robes and jewelry, and give them power over a lot of people! What could go wrong!?

[Fedora]

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[AlaskaErik]

400 kids. In one moderate sized city. 400.

It was a lot worse in Alaska. Pedophile priests, but I repeat myself, were sent to Alaska to get them as far away from the parishes where they had molested little boys. It was like putting a kid in a candy store. They raped their way across the state in every little village, where Alaska Native children were much more vulnerable and trusting. The Fairbanks Archdiocese has already been bankrupted. Now the same needs to happen in Anchorage and Juneau. One cannot begin to imagine the damage inflicted on our youth by this filthy scum.