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New Orleans Clergy Abuse Settlement: $305 Million for 600 Survivors — What It Means and What Comes Next You have been carrying this for a long time. Maybe decades. Maybe you were a child in a parish school in Orleans Parish, or an altar server at a church across the river in Jefferson, or a kid in a Catholic youth group in St. Tammany — and the person you were taught to trust most in the world used that trust to destroy part of you. You may have told no one. You may have tried to tell someone and been shut down. You may have spent years believing it was your fault, or that no one would believe you, or that the law had already closed the door because it happened too long ago. Then you read that roughly 600 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in New Orleans are in line to receive $305 million. That the archdiocese — the second-oldest Catholic archdiocese in the United States, founded in 1793, anchored by the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter that has stood through two centuries of Louisiana history — filed for bankruptcy protection in May 2020 because the weight…