The Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico announced it had reached a $121.5 million settlement agreement to resolve a bankruptcy case that stemmed from sex abuse claims, one of the largest settlements involving the Catholic Church in the U.S.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
