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	Fairbanks Catholic Diocese Receives Complaints Associated Press, carried in Juneau Empire December 25, 2008 http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122508/sta_371061130.shtml FAIRBANKS - The Diocese of Fairbanks, which is under bankruptcy protection, received 288 claims from people who said they had been molested by Roman Catholic clergy. A Dec. 2 deadline for claims was imposed when the diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year. The number of claims was reported by Catholic News Service. The diocese said it sought bankruptcy protection this past February because it could not reach a financial settlement over the 150 or so abuse claims it had received at the time. The claims related to cases largely dating between the 1950s and 1980s. In 2007, the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, agreed to pay $50 million to more than 100 Alaska Natives who said they had been molested as children by Jesuit priests. However, the cases did not include claims of negligence against the Fairbanks diocese, which owned and managed the parishes in the rural Alaska villages where the Jesuit priests worked. Fairbanks was the sixth U.S. diocese to seek bankruptcy protection in the face of sex abuse claims. The Fairbanks diocese oversees 47 parishes and 14,500 parishioners in what is - geographically - the largest diocese in the U.S. It spans more than 400,000 square miles.
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