Facing more than 500 abuse lawsuits, San Francisco Archdiocese says bankruptcy ‘very likely’
as well. The Diocese of Stockton resolved a 2014 bankruptcy in 2017.
There now are more than a dozen active bankruptcy cases involving Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S., the most recent filing in the Diocese of Ogdensburg, New York, the sixth in that state, according to Catholic News Agency. Other active cases involve the dioceses of Santa Fe, New Orleans, Harrisburg, Penn., Camden, N.J. and Norwich, Conn.in its 2020 bankruptcy case, which victim lawyers called the second-largest to date by a Roman Catholic institution in bankruptcy.
The archdiocese would not say how much it expects to pay to settle claims but denied that bankruptcy is aimed at reducing payouts to abuse victims. The archdiocese said a bankruptcy would ensure those whose individual cases are heard earliest don’t have an advantage in reaching financial settlements.
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