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 Sex Case Catholic Diocese Files For Bankruptcy Author: AP Source: MSNBC Title: SEX CASE CATHOLIC DIOCESE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY   Delaware's Catholic Diocese of Wilmington filed for federal bankruptcy protection on Sunday night, on the eve of a civil trial in a high-profile sex abuse case against the diocese and a former priest.The bankruptcy filing automatically delays the case in Kent County Superior Court, the first of eight consecutive abuse trials scheduled in Delaware. "This is a painful decision, one that I had hoped and prayed I would never have to make," said the Rev. W. Francis Malooly, the bishop of the diocese, on the diocese's Web site. "Our hope is that Chapter 11 proceedings will enable us to fairly compensate all victims through a single process established by the Bankruptcy Court," Malooly said. Thomas Neuberger, an attorney representing 88 alleged victims, described the bankruptcy filing as a "desperate effort to hide the truth from the public and conceal the thousands of pages of scandalous documents" from being made public in court. | |
| Community Thoughts: There are 10 comments posted | Reverse Sort |
| Yep... | Oct 22nd. at 3:53:09 am EDT |
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me In the end this only furthers the reality that catholicism isn't a religion, it's a business. |
| Chapter 11 | Oct 20th. at 8:44:00 pm EDT |
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Aidan Odinson (Collingdale, Pennsylvania) - Email Me - Web A Chapter 11 bankruptcy doesn't usually get anyone out of paying their creditors. What it does do is give a corporation the chance to pay off creditors under terms negotiated by a court. This can include a diocese, which often is organized as what's called a "corporation sole" under the bishop. Under Chapter 11, the court supervises the payment of debts. The other option would be Chapter 8 (liquidation) which I'm sure is not considered an option. It also means that the court is going to exercise some supervision over the diocese. |
| Ummmm ... | Oct 20th. at 1:43:10 pm EDT |
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Rev Jorinx (Sioux City, Iowa) - Email Me - Web I thought you file for bankruptcy to get OUT of paying your creditors? |
| They Need To Be Accountable | Oct 20th. at 1:17:07 pm EDT |
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Angel Fire (Claremore, Oklahoma) - Email Me The diocese need to be accountable for their actions. They have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the hopes of getting out of paying the victims of these henious crimes. You reap what you sow in this lifetime, and it comes back to you three fold. Looks like they need to learn some lessons from one of their past lives in order to learn from this lifetime! |
| Oh, Please. | Oct 20th. at 11:20:06 am EDT |
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Medea (Somewhere, Massachusetts) - Email Me Boo hoo hoo. If they hadn't turned a blind eye to all of this in the first place, this wouldn't be happening to them now. "As ye sow, also shall ye reap." Karma, meet the catholic church. |
| No Bankrupcy | Oct 20th. at 6:49:05 am EDT |
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Rowan Foxfyre (Indianapolis, Indiana) - Email Me If that dioceses sent money back to the Church then the Church can send money to cover those legal issues. If a branch office of one bank fails the home office is culpable for it's losses, same thing here. |
| Considering... | Oct 19th. at 6:57:07 pm EDT |
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me The history of the church has always been to shield it's personnel from prosecution in secular court, to sweep any evidence into hiding and to put on an innocent front in the face of it's victims as much as possible. I believe they should be made to pay for what ever their priests do when they break the laws. After all,the rest of us are held accountable. |
| ... | Oct 19th. at 6:12:37 pm EDT |
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web Being originally from Ogletown, I can read this with a healthy amount of schadenfreude. Nice to know more and more people are realizing how evil xian mythology and its necromancer priests really are. That being said, they should ask the Vatican for money. Don't they still have all that ill-gotten wealth? |
| Court Options? | Oct 19th. at 3:36:36 pm EDT |
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me I wonder what legal tactics might be possible to require that this Diocese convert church archives to liquid assets to fund ongoing financial obligations? Sell rights to produce Hollywood movies about child abuse to the highest bidders, including full historic evidence of criminal justice tampering by relocating "Father John" 1 through 37? Did Lord Baltimore leave anything interesting for nearby church corporations to hide away? Instead of trying to secret away legal evidence, what if the court ordered an internal administrative process and allocation of resources for expeditiously providing honest, complete, fully documented answers to litigation Discovery, subpoenas, interrogatories, etc.? How far would this corporate front for a genocidal mini-nation have to be pushed before Chapter 11 would be converted into liquidation? It might be interesting to see the contractors who usually do clearance sales and auctions with troubled retailers clear out real estate, gold fixtures, and archives of a Diocese. Terry . |
| Shameful | Oct 19th. at 1:24:04 pm EDT |
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Bajimer (Peotone, Illinois) - Email Me The Diocese should not be allowed to claim Bankruptcy protection from criminal activities. If they want that protection, they should have to give up all documents, forfeit their properties, all holdings, and they should be turned over to the abuse victims. I have nothing against one's chosen path in life, whatever it may be, but when it harms others that makes it just not acceptable. It is even more shameful that the Catholic church is defending these horrible people and their actions. So sad. I wish the victims luck. |
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