PHILADELPHIA (PA)
CBS Philly
By Mark Abrams
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia’s archbishop acknowledges in a letter accompanying the publication of a sobering financial report on the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that the clergy abuse crisis has been costly.
Referring to that letter, Archbishop Charles Chaput acknowledged Tuesday during a media briefing on the planned visit of Pope Benedict to Philadelphia in 2015, that the archdiocese estimates it has spent roughly more than $11-million responding to the February 2011 grand jury probe of alleged clergy sex abuse, suspension of priests and subsequent investigations.
And, Chaput says, that doesn’t include all the expenses for the current trial of Monsignor William Lynn, and a priest co-defendant, on which the archbishop refused to comment.
The archbishop says nine separate civil suits filed against the archdiocese were placed on hold by the parties pending the outcome of the trial.
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