‘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 bankrup...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans