{"id":858264,"date":"2025-06-26T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/new-orleans-archbishop-appears-in-court-during-contentious-clergy-sexual-abuse-bankruptcy-case\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:11:50","slug":"new-orleans-archbishop-appears-in-court-during-contentious-clergy-sexual-abuse-bankruptcy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/new-orleans-archbishop-appears-in-court-during-contentious-clergy-sexual-abuse-bankruptcy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans archbishop appears in court during contentious clergy sexual abuse bankruptcy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A potential agreement with survivors is in the works, but some parties are unhappy with settlement amountThe Catholic archbishop of New Orleans made a rare in-person appearance in federal bankruptcy court on Friday, days after announcing a potential agreement to settle claims with hundreds of clergy abuse survivors that has been met with pushback from some of the plaintiffs.\u201cI\u2019m here because I\u2019m concerned for the survivors,\u201d Gregory Aymond said in an interview with WWL Louisiana away from the cameras after what is believed to have been his first appearance in person for an open court hearing in the five years since his archdiocese \u2013 one of the US\u2019s oldest \u2013 joined roughly 40 Catholic institutions to file for bankruptcy protection amid the worldwide church\u2019s long ongoing clergy molestation scandal&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/24\/new-orleans-clergy-sexual-abuse-bankruptcy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potential agreement with survivors is in the works, but some parties are unhappy with settlement amountThe Catholic archbishop of New Orleans made a rare in-person appearance in federal bankruptcy court on Friday, days after announcing a potential agreement to settle claims with hundreds of clergy abuse survivors that has been met with pushback from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38972,22020,192],"tags":[60275,5948],"class_list":{"0":"post-858264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archbishop","8":"category-orleans","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-archbishop","11":"tag-orleans"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}