Los Angeles archdiocese, Salesians quibble over money

“$74 million short”
Sexual-abuse case goes to trial while Los Angeles archdiocese, Salesians quibble over money

Opening arguments were scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles Superior Court in the trial of a lawsuit alleging that the Salesian religious order knowingly transferred one of its members who had been accused of sexual abuse to St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, where he allegedly molested other children.

After the case was filed on Jan. 22, lawyers for the Salesian Society appeared before the state Supreme Court, arguing that the $660 million global settlement the Los Angeles archdiocese had reached with victims of sexual molestation last year allowed the archdiocese the unconstitutional power to scuttle the Society’s attempts to resolve the cases against it. Last year, the Salesians refused to join the global settlement....