Archbishop Listecki to Appear at Press Club Luncheon

By Annysa Johnso
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
June 17, 2014

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/263490181.html

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki will field questions from local journalists at a Milwaukee Press Club luncheon in September, one month before the scheduled confirmation hearing on the archdiocese's bankruptcy reorganization plan.

Listecki will be the featured guest at the Sept. 3 Newsmakers Luncheon.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has scheduled the confirmation hearing on the reorganization plan for Oct. 14-17.

That plan calls for the archdiocese to set aside up to $4 million to compensate 128 of the 575 men and women who filed claims in the bankruptcy alleging they were sexually abused as children by priests, teachers and others associated with the 10-county archdiocese. Survivors have criticized the plan as inadequate and unjust.

The archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2011 to address its mounting sex abuse claims, one of several Catholic dioceses and religious orders to do so across the country.

The luncheon runs from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Newsroom Pub, 137 E. Wells St. Look for more information soon at the Press Club website.