Creditors: Parishes, schools part of archdiocese assets that could pay clergy abuse claims

HAGANTNA (GUAM)
Pacific Daily News

Dec. 17, 2019

By Haidee Eugenio Gilbert

Creditors of the Archdiocese of Agana asked the federal court for a partial summary judgment that, if granted, could pave the way for the use of Catholic parishes and schools’ assets to pay some 280 clergy sex abuse claims.

These include everything from cars and vans to buildings, parishes, schools and cemetery property.

The creditors said the archdiocese, its parishes and its schools “are one and the same under civil law.”

Because they are one and the same, the assets of these parishes and schools “should be available to pay creditor claims,” the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, represented by Minnesota-based attorney Edwin Caldie, said in court filings pertaining to the archdiocese’s bankruptcy case.

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