Diocesan Chapter 11 bankruptcies are a contemporary reality that has been forced on an ever-increasing number of U.S. dioceses, as a direct consequence of the huge cost of settling historical claims of clergy sexual abuse.
But as a spate of recent news articles has highlighted, these bankruptcy procedures are never smooth processes — and they don’t guarantee an end to the legal problems generated by the Church’s earlier failures to address the scourge of sexual abuse adequately.
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