Posted on 11/21/2014 5:18:34 AM PST by TurboZamboni
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis reported a $9.1 million operating deficit for fiscal year 2014 and reiterated Thursday that it's considering filing for bankruptcy because of the potential for more lawsuits by victims of clergy sexual abuse.
The archdiocese released its financial information in its newspaper, the Catholic Spirit, more than a week after it said it was cutting its central office budget by 20 percent, including 11 jobs. Archbishop John Nienstedt called the situation "disheartening" but wrote that the chancery's finances won't directly affect parishes, schools or other Catholic institutions.
"I am determined to see that the ministries and essential services provided by the Chancery Corporation will continue," he wrote.
The archdiocese said its operating deficit can be partly attributed to $4.1 million spent to address allegations of clergy sexual abuse since May 2013, when a three-year window opened for abuse victims to file claims that were otherwise barred under the statute of limitations.
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See, Rome has plenty of assets to adequately pay all of her victims. I suppose it’s just good business to bankrupt one entity while others keep on trucking.
The problem is that the Vatican is part and parcel to this, they are complicit as well. When your leadership is involved in a cover-up, then the fish appears to be rotting from the head. I agree that there is likely a much larger portion of “good priests”, etc... but the optics of this and the insinuations that necessarily come from it are what is driving the continuous re-hashing of the problems inherent in the RCC hierarchy.
This is similar to what is going on with the presidency and the current cabinet - corruption at the top fostering corruption throughout.
A diocese is responsible for themselves. Every Parish is responsible for themselves. Now a loan might be issued and my guess is this Diocese is whining in order to get Rome’s attention.
Did the diocese get any of your money, or did it all go to these other "Catholic organizations"? Could it be that the same "empty envelope" behaviors took hold with the parishioners in the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, leading them into near-bankruptcy today?
Would you say that any Catholic dioceses deserve bankruptcy?
The Papa Francisco-less Orthodox Catholic Church down the street is accepting new members, and like the original 12 apostles many of their priests have orthodox marriages.
Also it should be noted that Catholics have dispersed. We are no longer living in ethnic conclaves in large cities anymore. White flight and all. So it is not at all surprising that the large city Dioceses are struggling.
Church and politics are two separate things.
Separate the faith from the modernistic secularism.
This is a local issue.
That’s laughable. The decisions about handling these cases went far beyond (above) Minnesota. Because of a molestation case I once handled I got involved with SNAP, so I know the dirty heartbreaking specifics of some of these cases. I promise I know what I am talking about.
And there’s the whole Roman rhetoric about one true church that you yourself spout here all the time. Are you one true holy church or not? Apparently you are one church in some areas but not others. Seems to me you are one when it suits Rome, but not when it interferes with her business. Got to keep the cash flowing and protect all those gold trinkets.
That’s just good business I suppose. Thanks for agreeing with me that the stuff Catholics say here about being one true church is just so much nonsense.
You are mixing apples and oranges. Finances and faith are not the same thing. But thanks for trying.
I would say that 88% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Add to it that it doesn’t matter how many good priests are actually dispersed throughout the various churches, the hierarchy well beyond the MN archdiocese had its hands in the coverup - it went out to Washington and beyond. This poisons the well, because they are the church leaders that are giving the various churches their marching orders - they are the chain of command.
I guess it makes you happy! Whatever!
That’s hysterical. Surely you don’t believe that. Finances tell us a story about your faith and vice versa. You can’t separate the two. Your church’s finances have been quite the testimony for centuries. Tetzel’s indulgence con played a role in sparking the Reformation.
Attorney: L.A. schools pay ‘largest’ public settlement for child abuse at $139 million
By Michael Martinez, CNN
updated 6:43 PM EST, Fri November 21, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/us/los-angeles-student-lewd-abuse-settlement/index.html
And local taxpayers don’t get an option to NOT pay this or NOT send their kids to L.A. schools. This is what faith in the ‘church’ of big gubmint get people.
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