MILWAUKEE (WI)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel June 17, 2014
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki will field questions from local journalists at a Milwaukee Press Club luncheon in September, one month before the scheduled confirmation hearing on the archdiocese’s bankruptcy reorganization plan.
Listecki will be the featured guest at the Sept. 3 Newsmakers Luncheon.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge has scheduled the confirmation hearing on the reorganization plan for Oct. 14-17.
That plan calls for the archdiocese to set aside up to $4 million to compensate 128 of the 575 men and women who filed claims in the bankruptcy alleging they were sexually abused as children by priests, teachers and others associated with the 10-county archdiocese. Survivors have criticized the plan as inadequate and unjust.
The archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2011 to address its mounting sex abuse claims, one of several Catholic dioceses and religious orders to do so across the country.
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