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Nuns' Home Will Fund Priest Sex Abuse Payment

LA archdiocese, facing $660M settlement, issues eviction notice

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 7, 2007 10:32 AM CDT
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(Newser) – The LA Archdiocese has notified three nuns that their Santa Barbara convent will be sold to help pay the $660 million settlement with victims of sexual abuse by priests. They received only a letter requesting they vacate by year's end, the Los Angeles Times reports. “We're not even worth a phone call,” said the 69-year-old superior.

The archdiocese says it will sell as many as 50 non-parish holdings to satisfy the record settlement, which was reached in July. The three Santa Barbara nuns, who work with the poor and undocumented, live rent-free in the small house and otherwise largely support themselves. They may be bound for Los Angeles, where their order owns its own convent.

In this file photo, members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, protest outside Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, seat of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, in September 2006. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least...
In this file photo, members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, protest outside Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, seat of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, in September 2006. The...   (Associated Press)
Attorney J. Michael Hennigan, representing the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, makes a concluding statement in court Monday, July 16, 2007, in Los Angeles. A judge on Monday approved a $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse, the...
Attorney J. Michael Hennigan, representing the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, makes a concluding statement in court Monday, July 16, 2007, in Los Angeles. A judge on Monday approved a $660 million settlement...   (Associated Press)
Plaintiff Esther Miller,48, an alleged victim of clergy abuse, cries outside Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, July 16, 2007, in downtown Los Angeles. Attorneys for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and for the more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse arrived at $660 million settlement, the...
Plaintiff Esther Miller,48, an alleged victim of clergy abuse, cries outside Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, July 16, 2007, in downtown Los Angeles. Attorneys for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of...   (Associated Press)
Donald Kohles pickets the Our Lady of the Angels cathedral after they announcement that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 million, the largest payout to date in the sexual abuse scandal. Sunday, July 15, 2007 in Los Angeles.(AP...
Donald Kohles pickets the Our Lady of the Angels cathedral after they announcement that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 million, the...   (Associated Press)
The convent, built for the order in 1952, will be closed to help pay off the church's sex-abuse settlements.
The convent, built for the order in 1952, will be closed to help pay off the church's sex-abuse settlements.   (Shutterstock.com)
The archdiocese plans to sell up to 50 non-parish properties, starting with the Santa Barbara convent.
The archdiocese plans to sell up to 50 non-parish properties, starting with the Santa Barbara convent.   (Shutterstock.com)
We're just so hurt by this, the order's local superior, said this week. And what hurts the most is what the money will be used for, to help pay for the pedophile priests. We have to sacrifice our home for that?
"We're just so hurt by this," the order's local superior, said this week. "And what hurts the most is what the money will be used for, to help pay for the pedophile priests. We have to sacrifice our home...   (Index Open)
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony looks at those who were molested by priests as Judge Haley J. Fromholz asked the victims in the courtroom to stand in this July 16, 2007 file photo in Los Angeles. Mahony approved a record clergy abuse payout, opened the files of the Roman Catholic...
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony looks at those who were molested by priests as Judge Haley J. Fromholz asked the victims in the courtroom to stand in this July 16, 2007 file photo in Los Angeles. Mahony...   (Associated Press)
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