Baltimore, the country’s oldest Catholic diocese, joins dozens of other dioceses that also filed. If approved, bankruptcy limits and silences victims.
Federal bankruptcy law halts all lawsuits against an entity that files for bankruptcy. Instead, the legal action will shift to a bankruptcy court, where the process — if successful — will set a permanent end-date when alleged victims of abuse related to the church can file claims, rather than opening a permanent window as the law intended.and outcomes depend on the court, insurance arrangements and the legal setup of the diocese.
He said in some places survivors have felt “horrible” watching bishops try to restrict which church assets should be included, or seeing planned to file against the archdiocese Sunday, allegations from two women who say they were raped as children and that the archdiocese looked the other way.
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