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  • Can Spokane Diocese survive bankruptcy?

    07/11/2005 11:22:06 PM PDT · by ppaul · 3 replies · 506+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 7/10/05 | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
    SPOKANE, Wash. -- The bankruptcy filing of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane raises the prospect that some or all of the 82 parishes could be sold to pay victims of sexual abuse by priests. It could also prompt Catholic schools to close; Catholic cemeteries to be sold and the bodies disinterred; and charities tied to the Catholic church to scale back their work. That has outraged some Catholics who wonder why they must pay for the depredations of a few pedophile priests. "Do 90,000 innocent people deserve to be punished for the sins of those few," said Robert Hailey,...