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	Spokane Diocese Faces Sale of Parishes KHQ September 15, 2010 http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=13157706 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The Catholic Diocese of Spokane must raise more than $800,000 this fall to pay sex abuse claims or risk having to sell some parishes to foreclosure. The diocese lost a legal fight Tuesday in bankruptcy court that could have forestalled such a drastic step. To prevent foreclosure, the diocese needs to deposit more than $43,000 into the bankruptcy trust by Sept. 30, followed by another $800,000 this fall. The diocese settled nearly all the claims against it during a bankruptcy case that ended in May 2007. But the financial woes stem from filings by more than a dozen people since who contend they were abused decades ago. Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com
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