Dave Warner--Reuters
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The beleaguered Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, beset by criminal and civil lawsuits related to a child sex abuse scandal, said on Thursday it is bleeding money and will lay off 45 people and close its 117-year-old newspaper.
Archbishop Charles Chaput said the 1.5 million member archdiocese faces a $17 million shortfall in the next fiscal year, which Chaput said does not take into account another $10 million in legal and investigatory expenses over the past several months."The extraordinary legal and professional costs of the past 16 months, while burdensome, played little role in the current budget decisions," Chaput said in a statement.
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