Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Files Reorganization Plan

MINNESOTA
Canonical Consultation

[with copy of the reorganization plan]

Jennifer Haselberger

05/26/2016

And, typically, they provided a Q and A of everything the Archdiocese wants you to know, as well as bulletin and pulpit announcements to be used at each of the ‘separately incorporated’ parishes that the Archdiocese claims it does not control. Ahem.

What the Archdiocese does not mention is that what they are seeking is called, in bankruptcy terminology, a cram down. In other words, the Archdiocese is asking the bankruptcy court to cram down the throats of the victims of sexual abuse and other unsecured creditors its reorganization plan, over the objections of those same creditors.

And Jesus wept.

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