Posted on 03/19/2023 5:55:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
The diocese of Santa Rosa has cited new lawsuits from more than 200 survivors of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests
The Diocese of Santa Rosa filed for bankruptcy March 13, days after its bishop finally concluded the decision was necessary in order to address potentially 200 new claims brought against the diocese by survivors of child sexual abuse.
Bishop Robert F. Vasa said in a March 10 statement posted to the diocese's website that after "months of careful and prayerful consideration" -- including consultation with the diocese's priests, the diocese's finance council, and other professionals retained by the diocese, "it was clear that such an action was necessary."
Bishop Vasa pointed out the diocese faces at least 160 new claims against it as a result of California legislation opening up a three-year window in the statute of limitations, from Jan. 1, 2020 to Jan. 2, 2023, that allowed survivors of child sexual abuse to file lawsuits within that time frame. He acknowledged those claims could potentially exceed 200.
"These cases are too numerous to settle individually and so they have accumulated until the closing of the three-year window," he said.
The March 13 petition to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy submitted by Bishop Vasa before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California informs the court the diocese has between $10 million to $50 million in assets and faces $10 million to $50 million in liabilities, and potentially 200 creditors or more to satisfy.
Bishop Vasa said the diocese faced similar circumstances in 2003, "but with many fewer cases." He pointed out the diocese at the time sold excess property, borrowed funds, and paid out "approximately $12 million dollars with an additional $19 million coming from insurance." Since then, he said, it has paid "an additional.....
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Cool. One of the three in Alaska was bankrupted for the same reason after pedophile priests banished to Alaska raped their way across the state. The carnage they left behind in Alaska Native villages is unbelievable. Every diocese deserves to be bankrupted for what these animals did.
Morally, spiritually, and now financially bankrupt.
So the “one, true, universal Church” doesn’t believe in universal liability apparently
After all these years, yet more cases? It never ends.
The Reformers nailed it.
These are old cases, in other words.
Pretty sure the “reformers” didn’t create a church free from sin or one free from sinners, at least based on the number of sexual abuse cases that happen in Protestant congregations (and are posted in the FR religion forum regularly).
It seems like these priests must have been molesting minors on an indistrial scale.
You are actually going to compare systematic abuse by Catholic priest all over the world, that get hidden for years, to isolated Christian churches that get exposed quickly.
You want to graph that data out?
The RCC doesn’t follow Scripture. Period. And their putrid fruit is manifest, as it has always been. How is that Pope working out for you? No Scriptural support.
Keep reading. You’re missing a lot.
It’s easy to make broad generalizations. Quite another to back it up.
Time after time, we see institutionalized perversion with the Catholic church hierarchy.
God does not endorse perversion. Why does the Catholic church?
It doesn't always "get exposed quickly". Sometimes it goes on for years. Read the reports.
What ever happened to "sin is sin"?
So they are “old cases”? What is your point?
How do you defend a 30 year old case? Especially if 5he priest in question may have died.
The Albany, New York diocese filed for bankruptcy last week.
Bergoglio’s not missing any meals.
We don’t. That’s why priests take vows.
You aren’t the Catholic church hierarchy and you have no voice in their matters.
You are but a lowly peon and no one in the Catholic church ever answers to you, or any other parishioner.
Prove me wrong.
The "catholic church hierarchy" is not the Catholic Church, ergo there is nothing to "prove you wrong".
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