‘This whole thing’s a farce’: New Orleans Catholic church sex abuse settlement brings anger and shock

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1. Fri, 28 August 2026

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     ‘This whole thing’s a farce’: New Orleans Catholic church sex abuse settlement brings anger and shock

     Survivors begin receiving letters with payment amounts months after $305m settlement agreement was struck Survivors of child rape and other sexual abuse within New Orleans’s Roman Catholic archdiocese learned that $641,000 or so is the most they can individually get under a settlement approved in December to resolve a years-long bankruptcy protection case. Those amounts were communicated in letters that hundreds of clergy abuse survivors participating in the New Orleans archdiocese’s bankruptcy...