MILWAUKEE (WI)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

By James E. Connell Feb. 17, 2014

An attorney once told me that bankruptcy is about money, nothing else, just money, and I suspect the attorney is correct.

The Bible teaches that the love of money is the root of all evils (1 Tim 6:10), not some evils but all evils, and I hold to the veracity of this teaching.

And the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s reorganization plan recently filed in the bankruptcy court shows a desire that no sexual abuse claimant receive money. Yes, 128 claimants in category No. 9 (statute of limitations) will be paid. But about these claims the plan states that the archdiocese has “objected to” them, yet feels that successfully objecting to the claim would require “a full trial.” It’s a cut-your-losses approach. It would be cheaper to pay the claimants than to pay the trial costs.

So, to the…