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| star-traveller |
| quote: | LA church sale to fund sex claims
Cardinal Mahony pledged not to close any parishes
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles has said his archdiocese will sell its main office to raise money to settle lawsuits for sexual abuse.
Cardinal Roger Mahony also said some 50 other buildings could be sold to settle hundreds of lawsuits brought by people who had been abused by priests.
In December, the archdiocese - America's largest - paid some $40m (�20m) to settle 46 cases.
But it still faces more than 500 claims that have been in litigation for years.
'Quick settlement'
"Though it has always been the position of the archdiocese that the insurance companies must honour their responsibility to fund a major share of future settlements, the archdiocese must be prepared to fund its share," Cardinal Mahony said in a statement on Tuesday.
He said the archdiocese's main administrative office - a 12-storey building in Los Angeles - would be sold to fund the settlements.
Cardinal Mahony also said that a working group had already identified some 50 other non-essential church properties for sale.
"No parishes or parish schools will be closed to fund these settlements, nor will their essential ministries be affected by these sales," the cardinal said.
He did not specify any timetable for those settlements, but expressed hopes that the matter would be resolved in "the near future".
The archdiocese last year settled 46 civil cases, paying some $40m (�20m) of the total amount of $60m (�30m). The rest was paid by insurers.
The cases related to two periods when it had limited or no insurance against sexual abuse claims - before the 1950s and after 1987.
But the archdiocese still faces more than 500 claims, with some experts saying that it could cost the church as much as $1bn (�500m) to settle all of them.
The archdiocese says it has more than 4.3m Catholics in nearly 300 parishes.
The Roman Catholic Church has been rocked by a series of child sex abuse scandals in recent years, particularly in North America and also in Ireland.
In the US, a Boston-based scandal in 2002 led to the prosecutions of a number of priests, large payouts to dozens of victims and allegations of a cover-up by senior clergy. |
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| LazFX |
grrrrrrrr
This is a misleading post. Your Subject is The US church = SEX ABUSES
When all the article says is the the archdiocese has to sell the offices in order to pay the monies owed in the civil case.
How does this make The US church = SEX ABUSES?? |
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| star-traveller |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
grrrrrrrr
This is a misleading post. Your Subject is The US church = SEX ABUSES
When all the article says is the the archdiocese has to sell the offices in order to pay the monies owed in the civil case.
How does this make The US church = SEX ABUSES?? |
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The Roman Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles has said his archdiocese will sell its main office to raise money to settle lawsuits for sexual abuse.
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That's actually funny if I imagine how they ask for money from people that go to a church every sunday or whatever. Like: Give some cash to Jesus Christ so he could settle all the sex claims people have to us ... sons of god.
Pathetic. |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by star-traveller
That's actually funny if I imagine how they ask for money from people that go to a church every sunday or whatever. Like: Give some cash to Jesus Christ so he could settle all the sex claims people have to us ... sons of god.
Pathetic. |
I understand what you are trying to point out and you are right.... but not all Churches are like this. |
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| Dj O'Callaghan |
It's ing digusting kiddy fiddlers make me feel sick.
My Mum's Irish and from a Catholic family yet she's not religious, it's a waste of time as far as we're concerned.
I respect peoples decisions to follow a religion so long as it's not too extreme. A friend of mine is Indian and a devout Catholic (from Portuguese decent) his girlfriend come over from India yet they had to sleep in seperate rooms in his parents house. ing pathetic if you ask me. |
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| tathi |
funny how people love generalising islam but hate it when people criticise and stereotype their religion :p
ps. all christians like sex with little boys |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by tathi
funny how people love generalising islam but hate it when people criticise and stereotype their religion :p
ps. all christians like sex with little boys |
I will pray for you and your sinning ways :D |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by tathi
funny how people love generalising islam but hate it when people criticise and stereotype their religion :p
ps. all christians like sex with little boys |
I thought most of us were pretty good at making the distinction between Islam and Extremist Islam? :conf:
btw you're going straight to hell :haha: :p |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj O'Callaghan
It's ing digusting kiddy fiddlers make me feel sick.
My Mum's Irish and from a Catholic family yet she's not religious, it's a waste of time as far as we're concerned.
I respect peoples decisions to follow a religion so long as it's not too extreme. A friend of mine is Indian and a devout Catholic (from Portuguese decent) his girlfriend come over from India yet they had to sleep in seperate rooms in his parents house. ing pathetic if you ask me. |
Extreme, like how?
Worshipping an ancient machine of execution?
Murder of millions and forced conformation of the church into the state for purposes of control and power?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm... |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
Extreme, like how?
Worshipping an ancient machine of execution?
Murder of millions and forced conformation of the church into the state for purposes of control and power?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm... |
Not that I'm trying to detract from your point or anything, but that sounds like just about every type of secular/non-secular goverment/ruling class through out history LOL :D. |
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