The dioceses currently in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings are Agaña (Guam), Buffalo, Camden, Harrisburg, New Orleans, Norwich, Rochester, Rockville Centre, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Santa Fe, and Syracuse.
The dioceses that have completed their bankruptcy proceedings are Davenport, Duluth, Fairbanks, Gallup, Great Falls-Billings, Helena, Milwaukee, New Ulm, Portland in Oregon, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Spokane, Stockton, Tucson, Wilmington, and Winona-Rochester.
Law professor Marie T. Reilly, in conjunction with The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, has tracked all the U.S. dioceses that have declared bankruptcy. Reilly told CNA that in several of the 24 U.S. states and three territories that have temporarily “revived” the statute of limitations on claims of abuse, multiple Catholic dioceses have been forced to declare bankruptcy amid a mounting number of new abuse claims brought to light during the statute of limitations “revival windows.”
In New York, which opened a two-year window for old abuse claims to be filed in August 2019, four of the state’s eight dioceses have declared bankruptcy, all since 2019. In Minnesota, four of the state’s six dioceses have declared bankruptcy following the opening of a three-year window from 2013-2016.
California was the first state to enact a temporary revival window after 2002, according to a report from Child USA, a think tank that focuses on child protection. Since then, 18 more states — Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Georgia, Utah, Michigan, New York, Montana, New Jersey, Arizona, Vermont, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Nevada, Louisiana, Maine, and Colorado; and three territories — Guam, Washington, D.C., and Northern Mariana Islands — have opened windows. Most have been two to three years long.
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