New Orleans Archdiocese files bankruptcy plan, would pay abuse survivors $62.5 million

More than four years after filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid a growing number of childhood sex abuse claims against local priests and other clergy, the Archdiocese of New Orleans filed a reorganization plan Friday that seeks to compensate abuse survivors for their decades of suffering while keeping the nation’s second-oldest diocese financially afloat.

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