The Archdiocese of New York announced it is establishing a $300 million fund that it intends to use to pay for a global settlement of most of the 1,300 lawsuits it still faces from victims of clergy sexual abuse.
The announcement of the fund came in a letter from Cardinal Timothy Dolan on December 8 in which he also revealed that the victims-survivors committee has agreed to engage a mediator, retired Judge Daniel J. Buckley, to negotiate a global settlement. Buckley helped negotiate a global settlement with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than