More dioceses may follow the Portland bankruptcy
A number of Catholic dioceses have recourse to combat bankruptcy because of accusations of abuse because of the sex of priests and “a little” more is now ready to demonstrate that the removal of the Archdiocese of Portland was the the first nation to file for Chapter 11 protection.
No figures on the number of dioceses, the compatibility of near bankruptcy, because each of the 195 U.S. dioceses are independent and have their individual situation, “said Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a spokesman for USA Conference Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC
“It would be relatively small,” said Walsh.
But the bishop of the Diocese of Tucson said, for his diocese, bankruptcies, it may be the best way for all victims. ”
Bishop Gerald Kicanas meeting with lawyers was largely the last month to examine the application of bankruptcy proceedings, said Fred Allison, spokesman for the Diocese of Arizona.
Kicanas said: “We are studying the best solution for our diocese.”
Others have already said, and they, with or without the risk of bankruptcy.
The Diocese of Dallas and the Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky there are two million dollars in proceedings concerning alleged sexual abuse committed by priests, they were before the claims.
The Diocese of Texas has obtained permission from the Vatican in 1997, bankrupt, after a jury awarded nearly $ 120 million to several victims of a priest, but the victims constant for about $ 31 million instead follow judgement.
“We have our terrible past behind us,” said Bronson Havard, spokesman for the diocese in Dallas.
In comparison, the Archdiocese of constant Kentucky 243 sex abuse claims of about $ 26 million during the last year without debate, bankruptcy.
“We have never seriously considered,” said Cecilia Price, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Louisville.
In California, the largest in the archdiocese of the nation is facing more than 540 requests for mediation in the footsteps of discussion with bankruptcy because the assurance of protection expected to deal with all settlements, said the death Tamberg, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
“But the main reason is that the mediation, ensure that all legitimate victims of the spirit of a misuse of the just and fair compensation and are not only paying the first five cases, mitkommen and leaving nothing else for all those who left, “Tamberg said.
In Boston, Archbishop Sean O’Malley promised when he was appointed Cardinal Bernard Law as head of the Archdiocese of Boston in 2003, it would have to pay more than 550 complaints of abuse after the bankruptcy was threatened. The law was generally blamed for spreading the problem to other dioceses by transferring priests accused of abuse of sex, without disclosure of the accusations.
A $ 90 million urban took place in Boston and the Archdiocese of erzbischöfliche sell the castle and 43 acres adjacent to Boston College for nearly $ 100 million last April to help pay.
In Portland yesterday, Archbishop John Vlazny has asked Roman Catholics to rally around the church.
In a short homily during the Mass early in the morning, the archbishop of Portland does not relate directly to his decision to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy of the Archdiocese of protection.
But Vlazny said the purpose of the church was to follow the teachings of Christ, including the need to take responsibility for sin, so that the latter.
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