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...silence has been broken, dioceses across the country face mountains of debt, even bankruptcy. The Vatican stands aloof at pay-up time; every diocese is responsible for its own financing. That drove the Santa Fe, N.M., diocese to the brink of insolvency, when it had to borrow from parish savings accounts to fill out a $50 million settlement. The diocese of Santa Rosa, Calif., sold off property, closed an elementary school and took out $7 million in loans from 90 other U.S. dioceses to pay $16 million to abuse victims...
...Boston the diocese admits the remnants of its insurance won't equal the settlements already negotiated, much less new ones. Bernard Cardinal Law, under fire for years of covering up parish priests' sexual misconduct, has vowed not to raid collection plates, bingo nights or the church's ambitious $300 million capital fund-raising effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping...
...that was so widely known that his parishioners complained about his predatory behavior to Bishop Comiskey's predecessor, Bishop Herlihey, as well as to the Vatican's ambassador to Ireland, the Papal Nuncio, and ultimately to the Vatican itself. The only result was that Fortune was moved from one parish and then sent off to study media communications in London and to seek psychiatric help...
...that the new body will "not lag behind best practice, and in fact be a model for it." Now the French church has created a consultative committee on sexual abuse against minors and has taken its first action: advising the removal of Father Gérard Mercury from his parish in Bordeaux after he had been convicted of molesting minors for a second time...
...plunged him into a suicidal depression that has haunted his adulthood as well as what should have been the most carefree years of his life. It started in1982, when he entered the St. Thomas Aquinas preparatory seminary in Hannibal largely because of his admiration for a childhood parish pastor who "represented the awe I had for priests...