Christian Brothers Spending $1.7m a Week on Abuse Cases

Christian Brothers spending $1.7m a week on abuse cases

The Congregation of Christian Brothers Oceania Province has revealed it was seeking to sell off its 36 properties to pay abuse victims, who would be treated as creditors.

Christian Brothers expects collapse with just $23m in the bank

The order is arguing for a scheme to distribute funds to victims, but they will not get their full compensation. It is forecasting to run out of money by September.

Schools feel heat over redress after Christian Brothers collapse – BishopAccountability.org

One of the country’s most senior Catholic Church officials says he hopes the Christian Brothers can find a way of paying compensation to thousands of victims of clerical abuse after the 183-year-old order warned it was running out of money and would have to shut down within months. In a pointed message, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe noted that the abuse occurred in institutions “now operated by Edmund Rice Education Australia”, an organisation th…