SEATTLE (WA)
Puget Sound Business Journal
Marc Stiles
Staff Writer-
Puget Sound Business Journal
A $2.2 million building sale in Seattle last week had people wondering if the buyer, Seattle University, was helping the seller, a group of priests, pay damages to hundreds of sexual-abuse victims.
The answer is no, a spokesman for the Oregon province of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits as they are more commonly known, said Tuesday.
The province declared bankruptcy nearly three years ago, around the time that the group agreed to pay $166.1 million to about 500 people abused by Jesuit priests at schools in the Pacific Northwest. It was one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sex-abuse settlements.
At the time, the National Catholic Reporter reported that the province would pay $48.1 million and that the order’s insurer would pay the rest.
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