Diocese of Fresno voluntarily files for bankruptcy

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After implicit 100 claims of intersexual maltreatment from the clergy, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, officials announced.

The voluntary petition came aft the Diocese announced successful May 2024 they would petition the court-supervised reorganization truthful each victims of intersexual battle from the clergy are reasonably and equitably compensated.

Catholic officials study that the Diocese of Fresno faces 153 claims of maltreatment by the clergy.

“Our Church indispensable code the suffering that victims of clergy intersexual maltreatment endure. We cognize the sin; it volition ever beryllium earlier us,” says Joseph Brennan, Bishop of the Diocese of Fresno.