{"id":20,"date":"2007-09-20T10:58:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-09-20T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T10:58:44","slug":"costly-payback-for-clerical-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/costly-payback-for-clerical-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Costly payback for clerical abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic diocese of San Diego recently agreed to pay $198.1 million to settle 144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy, the second-largest payment by any diocese and over $ 1 million per claimant.\u00a0 The diocese had sought to shield its assets by declaring bankruptcy, but the judge threatened to dismiss the diocese&#8217;s case if an agreement with sex abuse plaintiffs was not struck.<\/p>\n<p>While this payout seems extravagant, this story in the saga of clerical abuse is another sign that religion is far from the panacea it makes itself out to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic diocese of San Diego recently agreed to pay $198.1 million to settle 144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy, the second-largest payment by any diocese and over $ 1 million per claimant.\u00a0 The diocese had sought to shield its assets by declaring bankruptcy, but the judge threatened to dismiss the diocese&#8217;s case if &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/costly-payback-for-clerical-abuse\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Costly payback for clerical abuse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}