Facing 153 sexual abuse cases, the Fresno Diocese seeks bankruptcy. Critics call it delay tactic
Jeff Anderson, whose law firm has represented clergy abuse victims in 11 of California’s 12 dioceses, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said the proceedings help the diocese and bishop avoid accountability.
“By forcing survivors into bankruptcy court, they are once again denying responsibility,” Anderson wrote in a statement. “But we will stand with survivors and fight for the full measure of truth, justice, and healing they deserve.”
In May 2024, the church acknowledged more than 150 sexual abuse claims made against it since Assembly Bill 218 was enacted in January 2020.
Attorney Jennifer Stein said most victims were children forever “scarred” by the trauma that stemmed from clergy abuse.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story...lay-tactic
Jeff Anderson, whose law firm has represented clergy abuse victims in 11 of California’s 12 dioceses, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said the proceedings help the diocese and bishop avoid accountability.
“By forcing survivors into bankruptcy court, they are once again denying responsibility,” Anderson wrote in a statement. “But we will stand with survivors and fight for the full measure of truth, justice, and healing they deserve.”
In May 2024, the church acknowledged more than 150 sexual abuse claims made against it since Assembly Bill 218 was enacted in January 2020.
Attorney Jennifer Stein said most victims were children forever “scarred” by the trauma that stemmed from clergy abuse.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story...lay-tactic
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"
