Boston church offers to settle suits

[Wonder]

More than 500 plaintiffs given 30 days to accept $55 million deal

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The Archdiocese of Boston has offered $55 million to settle 542 clergy sex abuse lawsuits, an attorney for the plaintiffs said Friday.

THE OFFER CAME just a week after Archbishop Sean Patrick O’Malley was installed as head of the nation’s fourth-largest diocese.

The settlement would resolve claims from men and women who said they were abused as children by clergy within the Boston Archdiocese while church leaders routinely ignored the misdeeds. A recent report from the state attorney general estimated that more than 1,000 children were abused over four decades.

The Rev. Christopher Coyne, a spokesman for the archdiocese, would not comment on the proposed settlement, telling The Associated Press that there was an agreement not to publicly discuss negotiations.

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Yup - $$$ is always a good way around it.

[Submariner]

1. I attended school in the Archdiocese of Boston

in the 50s/60s. The nuns were brutal, but I guess I was one of the lucky ones not to get raped by a priest.

I hope the lawsuit settlement is refused. I would like to see the vatican and entire roman catholic church sued, to the exptent that they would have to give up their vast holdings in real estate and art treasures. The vatican should be bankrupted and destroyed financially. Let them do their poverty thingy while practicing being poor.

I would like to see other things happen to the vatican structure and the entire catholic church, but DU rules do not allow posting of what I am thinking right now.

Thanks for the post. I always enjoy watching the pervs squirm.