Posted on 09/20/2024 10:44:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
The Archdiocese of New Orleans has proposed a bankruptcy settlement as part of its plan for addressing sexual abuse by clergy, offering a $62.5 million payout to victims of abuse even as the victims themselves are demanding hundreds of millions more.
The archdiocese’s Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, filed last week in U.S. bankruptcy court, proposes a $50 million cash transfer from the archdiocese to a settlement trust, along with a $12.5 million payment from affiliated “non-debtor Catholic entities,” mostly parishes within the archdiocese itself.
In a statement announcing the plan, Archbishop Gregory Aymond said the archdiocese’s “main priorities are to assist the abuse survivors on a path towards healing that includes fair and equitable compensation for them” while “creating a more financially sustainable archdiocesan ministry for the future.”
Acknowledging that there is “still much work to do,” Aymond said the proposal will nevertheless “allow us to move forward and begin to bring conclusion to these proceedings.”
In addition to the financial compensation, Aymond said the plan will include as-yet-undisclosed “nonmonetary covenants” that the archdiocese is “continuing to negotiate with the committee of abuse survivors.”
“These nonmonetary covenants are actions that we publicly pledge to take to continue our commitment to ensuring our parishes, schools, and ministries are safe places for all to grow in faith, be educated, and to participate in ministry,” the archbishop said.
The archdiocesan proposal is considerably less than the roughly $1 billion proposed by survivors of clergy abuse, the vast majority of which would be paid by insurers. That plan was filed at the same time as the archdiocesan plan.
Legal counsel for the abuse victims indicated to CNA that the archdiocesan proposal was insufficient.
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If you’re like, “Yeah! Stick it to them Catholic groomers!”, and you also support public schools teaching kids to embrace sex and earlier ages ... you might be a Democrat.
Not to worry Gale Benson will coffer up $$$$
This is the second sex abuse suit filed that I know of....
How many suit-listed ‘survivors’ are there in this?
Punish the catholic putting his hard earned money up for God? Put the bishop in jail.
Looks like the Vatican Bank is just going to have to launder more money to meet the demand.
Nah. I’m like “the catholic church is a perverted mess because they believe demonized, non-Christian doctrine.”
So what should the victims get? A few prayers? If anyone is still a catholic after all the atrocities known to have been committed against mostly boys then they might have their head buried in the sand. The church needs to be bankrupted and the pedophile priests and their enablers jailed.
ditto
Don’t back down They can afford it. In fact demand 2 billion now for the insult.
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