A bankrupt Roman Catholic diocese in Montana has agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims from nearly 100 sexual abuse victims. The tentative agreement, announced by both sides Friday, would compensate 86 victims of abuse from priests, nuns and laypeople in the Great Falls-Billings diocese between the 1950s and 1990s. Amid the claims, the diocese filed for bankruptcy in March of last year, becoming the 17th in a growing number of troubled Catholic dioceses and religious orders to turn to chapter 11. Previous attempts at...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 27, 2018 19:18 UTC