New York Archdiocese settles $800 million abuse claims with 1,300 survivors
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The largest settlement in the nation's ongoing reckoning with clergy sexual abuse signals both the scale of institutional failure and a financial mechanism for survivor restitution, while raising questions about institutional accountability and bankruptcy filings across other dioceses.
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