Statement of Archbishop Hebda Regarding Today's Filing Deadline

Canonical Consultation
August 03, 2015

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Pastors and parish administrators today received the following email from Archbishop Hedba regarding the August 3 filing deadline for claims against the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The deadline, you may recall, restricted the amount of time that victims of clergy sexual abuse had to file claims against the Archdiocese as a result of the Archdiocese's bankruptcy filing. Rather than having until May 25, 2016, as was legislated with the passage of the Child Victims Act, victims of priests and deacons of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis have only until midnight today to file notice of claims. What follows is Archbishop Hebda's statement to parishes about the deadline and the Archdiocese's efforts to see it upheld.