MILWAUKEE (WI)
The Tablet (UK)
31 July 2013
A federal judge has ruled that the US archdiocese of Milwaukee, which has filed for bankruptcy, cannot be forced to dip into a US$50 million trust fund it set up for the care of cemeteries in 2007 to pay for sex abuse claims.
Creditors of the archdiocese accused Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who was then the diocese’s archbishop, of creating the fund to protect the archdiocese’s money from abuse payouts. Judge Rudolph Randa yesterday said the archdiocese had a duty under canon law to use cemetery funds for their stated purpose.
Milwaukee cemeteries cover nearly 1,000 acres of land, in which more than 500,000 people are buried.
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