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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud announced on February 28, 2018, that it would file for bankruptcy amid claims of sex abuse. [50] The Diocese then filed on March 5, 2019. [51] On May 26, 2020, it was agreed that the Diocese could undergo bankruptcy if $22.5 million was forfeited to compensate 70 sex abuse survivors. [52]
In 1850, Pope Pius IX elevated the Diocese of New York to a metropolitan archdiocese, assigning the Diocese of Boston, with its Vermont parishes, as a suffragan see. [6] In 1852, at a meeting of the bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of New York, the bishops decided that Vermont should have its own diocese.
In July 2004, the archdiocese became the first American diocese to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the Catholic sex abuse cases. [11] [12] Vlazny described his actions by saying, "This is not an effort to avoid responsibility. It is, in fact, the only way I can assure that other claimants can be offered fair compensation." [13]
Nov. 10—The 51 parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich have hired two attorneys in an effort to join the diocese in seeking bankruptcy protection from sexual abuse claims against ...
A Roman Catholic diocese in Long Island, New York announced a new bankruptcy settlement on Thursday that would pay more than $323 million to about 530 sex abuse survivors who alleged they were ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester will pay $55 million to survivors of sexual abuse committed by clergy members under a settlement announced by church officials. The diocese, which declared ...
The sexual abuse scandal in Burlington diocese is a significant episode in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States. The court-documented cases covered abuse in the 1970s. The courts heard these cases from 2005 through 2010. In 2010, 26 cases remaining were settled for $17.6 million. [1]
The claim, from Albuquerque attorney Levi Monagle, who represented about 140 people who made accusations against clergy in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe's federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, is the ...