[Photo above: A mural decorates a building once part of the now defunct clergy treatment center operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. The men’s religious order will help fund a $121.5 settlement between the Santa Fe Archdiocese and claimants in sexual abuse cases. (NCR photo/Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola). See also a higher-resolution version of the image.]

An unprecedented public archive of clergy sexual abuse documents is being established at the University of New Mexico thanks to a collaborative agreement between abuse survivors and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

The archive, documenting one of the U.S. Catholic Church’s epicenters of sexual abuse and coverup, is the result of a commitment Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester made to the creditors’ committee that represented clergy sex abuse claimants in the archdiocese’s concluding Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.

The archdiocese, five participating religious orders and their insurers are…