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NY ARCHDIOCESE $800 MILLION PAYOUT FOR SEX ABUSE; ANOTHER HYPOCRYTICAL RELIGION EXPOSED

New York archdiocese finalizing $800m settlement with clergy sex abuse survivors

Agreement with more than 1,300 victims of clergy members and lay leaders would resolve long legal fight

The Catholic archdiocese of New York is finalizing a settlement for at least $800m with more than 1,300 people who said they were sexually abused by clergy members and lay leaders, according to one of the plaintiff’s attorneys.

The agreement would resolve a long legal fight, as well as reportedly reduce the risk of the diocese going bankrupt.

While the parties have not reached a final deal, just a few details remain, according to attorney Paul Mones, who represents some of the plaintiffs.

“It gives closure to people, many of whom are in their 60s, 70s and even into their 80s,” Mones said in a phone interview on Saturday. “That is a significant matter in terms of closing the emotional door – or trying to – because it’s never going to be closed, but [it] at least gives some measure of justice to people who were terribly wronged.”

In 2006, the New York state court of appeals refused to waive a statute of limitations concerning allegations that Catholic priests committed sexual abuse in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the New York Times reported.

The state then in 2019 passed the Child Victims Act, which allowed sexual abuse survivors to bring civil lawsuits against abusers until the plaintiff turned 55. Afterwards, thousands of people filed lawsuits against the archdiocese, the Boy Scouts and Jeffrey Epstein, among others.

Then, in 2025, the archdiocese of New York started trying to raise $300m to pay 1,300 survivors of clergy abuse. The New York Roman Catholic district sold off assets and cut costs to settle the claims; in New Orleans, the archdiocese declared bankruptcy amid similar scandals.

The New York survivors can now either enter into an agreement with the archdiocese in which each receives $250,000, or fill out a form detailing what happened and participate in an allocation procedure that will determine how much money they receive, Mones explained.

In an email to priests, which was shared with the New York Times, the New York archbishop, Ronald A Hicks, said: “We are on the verge of being able to, please God, bring some measure of healing and reconciliation to all victim-survivors.”

While the settlement would resolve the claims in New York, the Catholic church faces lawsuits concerning alleged sexual abuse in other states.

Chicago attorneys filed a half dozen lawsuits this month against the city’s archdiocese alleging that the institution knew its priests were running a sex ring at a parish and did not stop it, according to WTTW News. In Baltimore, the archdiocese is in mediation with sexual abuse survivors, WBAL reported.

Mones said that he is representing alleged survivors of sexual abuse in lawsuits against archdioceses across the country, including Buffalo, San Diego and San Francisco.

POPE LEO SAYS “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO” TO AFRICAN MIGRATION TO EUROPE

Pope Leo Welcomes Aliens Into Europe While Vatican Keeps Fortress-Like Borders

  •   A viral video shows Pope Leo XIV welcoming a large group of African migrants in Sicily, but Vatican City bans illegal immigration with huge fines and jail time.
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Images of Pope Leo XIV welcoming African migrants to Europe has sparked outrage, as some accuse the Pontiff of encouraging the weakening of western nations while maintaining Vatican City as an impenetrable fortress that threatens illegal migrants with huge fines and lengthy prison sentences. 

In a widely viewed video posted by EWTN, the Pope can be seen greeting a large group of migrants who had just made their way by boat to the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa. He also prayed at a cemetery there for migrants who died making the perilous journey.

The viral video has been seen over 1.1 million times while triggering nearly 2,000 mostly negative comments because of the Vatican’s longstanding hypocrisy on migration and open borders.

“The Church’s silence regarding the threats European Christians face is already deafening. Combining it with telling Europeans that they must do more to ‘integrate and protect migrants’, is adding insult to injury,” declared Eva Vlaardingerbroek, conservative European commentator and founder of the Save Europe Act, responding to the video.

“The Pope’s decision to do this now, right as Europe is witnessing yet another wave of murders of its citizens by migrants (think of Louis, Christian, Henry, and the countless others) cannot be dismissed as a mere public relations blunder,” Vlaardingerbroek wrote.

Louis, Christian, Henry and the “countless others” she refers to are young people who were recently brutally murdered or sexually assaulted by migrants amid western Europe’s suicidal policies favoring migrants over native-born citizens.

“It is a painful slap in the face of the Christian native peoples of Europe and all those who lost their children and loved ones as a result of mass migration,” Vlaardingerbroek said.

“Where is the Church’s charity and compassion toward them?” she asked. “Why do we not hear a word about the attacks on Europe’s Churches and Christian communities? Why do we not hear a word about the millions of Europeans who are unsafe and estranged, fast becoming a minority in their own homelands?”

“As a new Catholic, I have generally tried to refrain from critiquing the Pope, for we do not lightly challenge the father. This, however, is not a matter of dogma or infallible teaching,” she continued. “The Pope has chosen to make a political and pastoral statement on migration, and on such prudential questions the faithful may legitimately form and express their own judgment.

“My opinion on this is clear: Europe does not have a moral obligation to house the entire world, especially not when it comes at the cost of civilizational destruction,” she concluded.

“Any person who enters the territory of Vatican City State by means of violence, threat, or deception shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of one to four years and a fine of €10,000.00 to €25,000.00,” the decree states.

$800,000,000 YES $800 MILLION PAID BY THE LARGEST SETTLEMENT FOR ABUSE BY NEW YORK ARCHDIOCESE…IS THIS REALLY A RELIGION OF GOOD WORKS AND EXAMPLE OF JESUS?

Archdiocese of New York Agrees To Pay $800,000,000 in Sex Abuse Settlement WHY ARE THESE ABUSERS in the funny hats SMILING?

Two years after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached an $880 million settlement with men and women who survived childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests and clergy in their diocese, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is following suit, agreeing to pay more than $800 million to its own sexual abuse survivors.

So far, the Catholic Church has paid out more than $5 billion in settlements, which has bankrupted at least 19 dioceses.

The archdiocese has been planning this for a while. Along with selling off buildings and laying off staff, including the sale of their New York headquarters for $100 million, the Archdiocese is suing its insurance company, Chubb.

The archdiocese claims that “even though we have paid them over $2 billion in premiums by today’s standards, [Chubb] is now attempting to evade their legal and moral contractual obligation to settle covered claims which would bring peace and healing to victim-survivors.”

Chubb insists that it is not obligated to settle several of these claims, some of which go back over 80 years, because the church knew about the abuse and did nothing to stop it, making the incidents ineligible for coverage.

A letter sent by the Archbishop of New York, Ronald Hicks, notes that the matter has been a painful process, but they hope that all parties accept. If so, they would each received around $215,000. It reads in part:

As you may have heard, the Archdiocese of New York and the Plaintiff’s Liaison Committee (PLC), which represents a majority of victim-survivors, have been working hard for several months to reach agreement on a global settlement of all sex abuse lawsuits.  The parties have been working to create the framework of a comprehensive arrangement that will deliver compensation to victim-survivors faster and more efficiently than the traditional legal process. These discussions have been facilitated by Judge Daniel J. Buckley, a highly experienced neutral third-party mediator. Although much work remains to be done before a settlement can be finalized and consummated, I am cautiously optimistic about the path we are on.

Members of the PLC, attorneys who have long advocated for victim-survivors, have begun reaching out to counsel for all impacted individuals and it is our sincere hope to achieve full participation; we cannot begin to compensate victims until full participation is achieved. If a truly global settlement can be achieved, compensation will become available to victim survivors in the fastest, most comprehensive manner possible, without the need for lengthy painful litigation for victim-survivors or bankruptcy proceedings for the Archdiocese. Though I am new to the Archdiocese of New York, I recognize the immense effort that this Archdiocese has dedicated to supporting victim-survivors over the past decade. My predecessor, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, established the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program (IRCP) in 2016 which provided millions in compensation to victim-survivors. The Archdiocese has sold off the majority of its real estate holdings and made significant cuts to our staff and other operational expenses. These cuts have been painful for us, but they were necessary measures to secure the resources needed to compensate victim-survivors.

It cannot be denied that this has been a painful process – most significantly so for the victim-survivors and their families and loved ones who have suffered, in most cases, for decades. I pray that all of us, as the Family of God, will come together to support and affirm these individuals and take these next steps to bring about some healing and peace.