The number of Roman Catholic dioceses in the US that have declared federal bankruptcy amid the worldwide church’s clergy abuse scandal has grown after one in central Louisiana recently filed for chapter 11 protection.
The diocese of Alexandria announced in a statement on Friday it had joined more than 40 Catholic institutions in the US which have filed for bankruptcy protection. According to Penn State’s law school, 28 of those bankruptcies had concluded in one of the most obvious indicators of the clergy abuse scandal’s fallout.
