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The New Orleans Archdiocese $230 Million Clergy Abuse Settlement: What Survivors and Families Need to Know If you are reading this page, you may be one of the roughly 600 survivors whose claims forced the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States into federal bankruptcy court — or you may be someone who was abused by clergy in Louisiana and is only now learning that the law changed in ways that might still give you a path forward. Either way, what happened in a New Orleans federal courtroom in December 2025 was not just a number on a page. It was the end of more than five years of litigation that an institution initially believed it could settle for less than $7 million — and that ultimately cost it $230 million, with another $75 million possibly coming from its insurer, plus more than $50 million in legal fees it spent fighting the very people it had failed to protect. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes cases in Louisiana, and we built this page because the settlement confirmation raises questions that general news coverage does not answer: How will the points system actually determine what each survivor receives? What claims survived the bankruptcy channeling injunction — and what claims against individual church officials who covered up abuse are still alive? What is the open criminal trafficking investigation, and could it create an entirely separate federal civil remedy with treble damages? And perhaps…