It is just too hard to read this statement from Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, and realize that it is just more BS..

This is so sad.

I was a party to watching the San Diego RCC (Roman Catholic Church)file for BK the night before a few cases were going to go to trial here. Same M/O as Portland and now in Delaware. The Federal Judge here kicked them out of court for breaking the Federal BK laws. She ordered the Bishop into court and forced him to answer questions. Then the Fed Judge hired a forensic accountant to go over the books. He found them hide money and lie about just about anything that would force them to come clean with the victims. It was a real eye opener as it will be in Delaware. I bet they pull the same tricks!!!!

OH Dear Lord, Save these poor victimized children of Your Church. The smoke of satan has entered Your Church, Dear Lord and our church is in the grasp of the forces of evil. Save us SWEET JESUS, SAVE US PLEASE.

Hot air is a nice way to describe O'Brien's lament for Wilmington. Who cares what he has to say anyway? All the crocodile tears and sympathy for victims and children mean nothing. He, like his fellow hierarchs, is gleeful that the bankruptcy will protect another bishop's behind.
Let us not forget that this is the same Archbishop O'Brien who tried to remove Father Tom Doyle, the hero whistle blower on child abuse by priests in the US, when he was head of the military archdiocese. In a low and mean spirited move he took away Doyle's permission to function as a priest. This in effect would force Fr Doyle to resign his US Air Force commission two months before retirement, thus making him ineligible for a pension. Nasty! The Air Force came to Doyle's rescue and allowed him to stay on to collect his retirement. O'Brien should just stuff his crozier in his mouth and realize that no one is listening to his over blown rhetoric anyway. No one is listening to any of these bishops and many have zipped their purses closed. Actions speak louder than platitudes.
O'Brien is another company man but it is not the company Jesus founded.

I think that the statement does not go far enough into the reason for the bankruptcy filing. There is this little thing in our civil laws known as the statute of limitations. In the simplest terms, depending upon the civil claim, it mandates that a person purporting to be damaged at the hands of another must file a claim with the court in a prescribed period of time. These statutes vary by state. But a statute of limitations is the reason why someone cannot slip in a grocery store in 1972 and then sue the store in 2009 claiming damages.

Here is where it gets a little tricky. When the sex abuse scandal involving the Catholic church first arose, people who had claims because the statute of limitations had not run could assert those civil claims. However, the trial lawyers decided that that was gold to be had in them thar cathedrals, so they lobbied state legislatures to change the rules and open "windows" that would allow anyone to make a claim without regard to when of if the purported abuse happened, if the accused was dead, etc. I'm not familiar with Delaware, but the M/O by legislators is that they do not allow this same window against public institutions, such as public schools. The only other type of cases in which statutes of limitations were suspended were claims involving asbestos-related injuries, and those could be proven.

Is it about money? Yep, it sure is. It's about a greedy band of trial lawyers trying to shake down the Catholic church, that's what this is about.