Milwaukee Sexual Abuse Victims To Receive Average Of Just $44,000 From Catholic Church

The public may not fully realize what the Catholic church has done, and we believe that they deserve to know. More than 12 dioceses have filed for bankruptcy in the past 10 years to deal with sexual abuse claims. In this most recent bankruptcy case, the Milwaukee Archdiocese spent more than $19 million dollars in legal fees. The sexual abuse victims will receive on average just $44,000 (according to Peter Isely, Midwest director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). ChristianMoney.com condemns in the strongest terms what was done to these people and asks just one question, "What would Jesus Do?"

Attorney Thomas Paris (my cousin) in nearby Chicago had this comment about the case, "General Motors and many other companies have done the same thing to those who have brought claims against them.  They use extremely well paid lawyers ($1,000.00 hour would not be unusual)  to package a deal to save an institution which perhaps should be allowed to fail. Many Biblical principals are breached by allowing the church to get into this position and then act in a less than repentant manor."

Archdiocese Of Milwaukee To Pay $21 Million In Abuse Settlement

Archdiocese Of Milwaukee To Pay $21 Million In Abuse Settlement Is this justice? Posted: 08/05/2015 09:26 AM EDT | Edited: 2 hours ago  MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said Tuesday that it will pay $21 million to more than 300 victims of clergy abuse in a settlement that would end a four-year bankruptcy proceeding. The proposed deal, which will be part of a reorganization plan submitted to a bankruptcy court later this month, was to be reviewed by a judge overseeing the case at a Nov. 9 hearing. Archbishop Jerome Listecki called the settlement a "new Pentecost," but an attorney for the victims, along with advocates for those abused by clergy, decried the settlement as a paltry amount.

The deal was also criticized by David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, an advocacy group for survivors of clergy abuse. He called it "the largest mass betrayal of child sex abuse victims we've ever seen by one diocese. And it's the most cunning exploitation of the advantages of bankruptcy rules by Catholic officials we've ever seen."

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