NEW YORK
National Catholic Reporter
Peter Feuerherd | Jun. 23, 2017
BROOKLYN, N.Y. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio announced June 22 that the Brooklyn Diocese will compensate victims of sex abuse by clergy and church workers via a program modeled on one in the neighboring New York Archdiocese.
The Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program will allow survivors of sexual abuse by priests or deacons of the diocese to seek financial compensation.
“I am well aware that no amount of money will ever heal the scars of abuse,” but the compensation program is “a concrete expression of our contrition and our desire to make amends,” DiMarzio said in a video statement.
The Brooklyn Diocese’s program will be administered by compensation experts Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, both of whom worked on a program compensating the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks in New York. Feinberg and Biros are administering the archdiocesan program.
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