‘You’re only as sick as your secrets’: New Orleans clergy abuse bankruptcy is uniquely acrimonious

The church is using legal tactics to prevent testimony from survivors and spur expensive inquiries into its critics

This is the first installment of a three-part series exploring how the archdiocese of New Orleans’s bankruptcy stands apart from other cases of its kind.

As his practice grew, plaintiff attorney Richard C Trahant, 56, sent money to the Jesuit high school of New Orleans. Lots of money.

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