New Orleans archbishop meets with survivors of clergy sexual abuse
Series of meetings is mandated by $305m settlement agreement for 600 survivors of decades-long abuse scandalA small number of victims of New Orleans’ Catholic clergy abuse scandal filed into a local church office recently for the first of 10 group meetings with Archbishop Gregory Aymond.The New...
<p>Series of meetings is mandated by $305m settlement agreement for 600 survivors of decades-long abuse scandal</p><p>A small number of victims of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-orleans-clergy-abuse">New Orleans’ Catholic clergy abuse scandal</a> filed into a local church office recently for the first of 10 group meetings with Archbishop Gregory Aymond.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-orleans">New Orleans</a> archdiocese agreed to the meetings as part of settling its six-year-old federal bankruptcy protection case in December. Such group and one-on-one meetings are some of the non-monetary terms of a settlement that is expected to otherwise pay about 600 abuse survivors <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/payment-survivors-sexual-abuse-new-orleans">$305m</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/new-orleans-archbishop-aymond-clergy-sexual-abuse-survivors">Continue reading...</a>
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