{"id":84036,"date":"2026-06-30T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84036"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:37:00","slug":"san-francisco-archdiocese-agrees-to-pay-395-million-to-settle-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/san-francisco-archdiocese-agrees-to-pay-395-million-to-settle-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Archdiocese Agrees To Pay $395 Million To Settle Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>ABC News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits alleging\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spain-pope-leo-abuse-reparations-catholic-c0cd8a3276a78f8dcdff492b75fadcf4\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">child sexual abuse<\/a>\u00a0by church officials, plaintiffs&#8217; attorneys said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will have to write an apology letter to each survivor as part of the settlement.\u00a0The settlement also requires the archdiocese to implement a series of child protection and transparency reforms, including creating a list of clergy accused of abuse, said Jeff Anderson, an attorney representing dozens of child sexual abuse victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC News: The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84037,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84036\/revisions\/84037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}