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CNN —The Archdiocese of San Francisco has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse. “We seriously doubt that the Archdiocese of San Francisco does not have the assets to settle these lawsuits,” the Survivors Network of Abuse by Priests said in a statement. The San Francisco filing comes after the Catholic Diocese of Oakland similarly filed for bankruptcy protection in May after it received more than 330 claims of sexual abuse. The Catholic Church as a whole has faced intense criticism over its response to multiple reports detailing decades of sexual abuse, systemic failures and cover-ups across multiple countries. The San Francisco Archdiocese serves more than 440,000 Catholics across the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin, according to its website.
Persons: Salvatore Cordileone, , Priests, Cordileone, Pope Francis Organizations: CNN, Archdiocese, Survivors Network, Catholic Diocese of, Catholic, San, SNAP, San Francisco Archdiocese Locations: Archdiocese, San Francisco, California, Francisco, Catholic Diocese of Oakland, CNN Portugal, San Francisco Archdiocese, San Mateo, Marin
Aug 21 (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco filed for bankruptcy on Monday, saying a Chapter 11 filing will facilitate a settlement of about 500 lawsuits accusing the church of enabling childhood sexual abuse by priests. The filing in U.S. bankruptcy court in San Francisco will put the lawsuits on hold and buy time for settlement talks, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said in a statement. The "overwhelming majority" of the alleged abuse occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, involving priests who are deceased or no longer in ministry, Cordileone said. The dioceses of Oakland and Santa Barbara this year also filed for bankruptcy, each citing the impact of hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits. Reporting by Dietrich Knauth Editing by Will Dunham and Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Cordileone, Santa Barbara, Dietrich Knauth, Will Dunham, Chris Reese Organizations: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San, Thomson Locations: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Oakland, Santa
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