{"id":23843,"date":"2011-01-05T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/journal-sentinel_archdiocese_of_milwaukee_files_for_bankruptcy_protection\/"},"modified":"2011-01-05T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:02:19","slug":"journal-sentinel_archdiocese_of_milwaukee_files_for_bankruptcy_protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23843","title":{"rendered":"(Journal-Sentinel) Archdiocese of Milwaukee files for bankruptcy protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which faces more than a dozen civil fraud lawsuits over its handling of clergy sex abuse cases, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Jerome Listecki, speaking on the first anniversary of his installation, said the move was necessary to fairly compensate victims and to continue the &#8220;essential ministries&#8221; of the church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of the horrific actions of a few, there are financial claims pending against the archdiocese that exceed our means,&#8221; Listecki said at a news conference at the Cousins Center in St. Francis, which houses the archdiocese headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/features\/religion\/112878494.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which faces more than a dozen civil fraud lawsuits over its handling of clergy sex abuse cases, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. Archbishop Jerome Listecki, speaking on the first anniversary of his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23843\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,149,114,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}