This is untrue. Portland, Tuscon and San Diego have sought chapter 11 protection.
This in no way rids themselves of the responsiblity of paying victims who bring lawsuts. Truth is the Catholic church has paid over a billion dollars to date. In addtion the Catholic church is not alone in the abuse which in no way minimizes what was done and what was covered up. Take for instance the Angelican church
IN a compensation deal condemned by child protection advocates as woefully inadequate, the Anglican Church has offered a total of $825,000 to 41 former residents of an orphanage who say they were sexually and physically abused by clergymen and staff at the church-run facility.
Church "a church of compassion"
The amounts offered to the Lismore residents range from $16,000 to $22,600, compared with $40,000 to $75,000 granted by the Catholic Church in 2002 to 16 former residents of Brisbane's Nazareth House who were subjected to a similar regime of abuse.
Mr Comben, a former Queensland cabinet minister who is now the registrar of Grafton diocese, said senior counsel had advised the church it was not liable for compensation.
"We have made that offer on the basis that the church is a church of compassion and wants to make a passable approach to people who had apparently been damaged in a place that had some sort of connections with some church people," he said.
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