This is not the first, but it is the largest payout yet in the ongoing sex scandal. Last year the archdiocese said it would pay $60 million dollars to settle other lawsuits.
“The settlement will not have an impact on the archdiocese's core ministry,” said Cardinal Roger Mahony. “but the church will have to sell buildings, use some of its invested funds and borrow money. The archdiocese will not sell parish properties or schools.”
I looked this up and found that Cardinal Mahoney was talking about selling its 12-story administrative building, and would have to consider selling about 50 other non-essential properties to raise the needed funds.
The church also has to release the confidential personnel files on the priests to the lawyers of the victims. These records will be searched for criminal activity of individual priests or anyone else. If they find anything I guess those guilty will be tried in criminal court. That’s gotta hurt.
All of this talk of multi-million dollar payoffs makes me wonder where the church got all that money. When the parishioners plop their dollar or two into the bucket I’m sure they think it is going to go to helping the poor and needy and certainly not for a partial payment on a non-essential property for the church.
As could be expected the plaintiffs' attorneys will take away up to 40 percent of the settlement money—or $264 million.
A February 2004 report commissioned by the Church said more than 4,000 Roman Catholic priests in the
I wonder if a lot of the built-up sexual energy of the priests couldn’t be stopped or at least slowed by allowing them to marry.
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