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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY Archdiocese Sells $490M Property To Pay Its Victims
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/ny-archdiocese-sells-490m-property-to-pay-its-victims/The Catholic Archdiocese of New York has agreed to sell the land it currently owns beneath the historic Lotte New York Palace Hotel, New Yorks first five-star hotel, for a staggering $490 million to help pay survivors of clergy sex abuse. The agreement comes a week after Cardinal Timothy Dolan announced plans to sell real estate to pay child sex abuse survivors in the archdiocese.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/ny-archdiocese-sells-490m-property-to-pay-its-victims/
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NY Archdiocese Sells $490M Property To Pay Its Victims (Original Post)
USS_Dauntless
Dec 19
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Trying to make up for protecting Milwaukee pedo priests and hiding money from priest abuse victims?
Scrivener7
Dec 19
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Scrivener7
(58,366 posts)1. Trying to make up for protecting Milwaukee pedo priests and hiding money from priest abuse victims?
Does hell loom, perhaps?
USS_Dauntless
(221 posts)2. I am not convinced that any sort of afterlife exists,
but sometimes I wish there was a Hell for certain people to burn in.
Scrivener7
(58,366 posts)6. But he's convinced of it.
bucolic_frolic
(54,064 posts)3. 50th St and Madison Avenue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_New_York_Palace_Hotel
Developed and renovated over a series of domestic and foreign owners since 1980. Currently Korean owned.
Developed and renovated over a series of domestic and foreign owners since 1980. Currently Korean owned.
TheBlackAdder
(29,981 posts)4. If just one parcel is almost a half billion, how many tens or hundreds of billions is the NY Archdiocese sitting on?
USS_Dauntless
(221 posts)5. A very valid question,
that the public deserves full transparency on.
eppur_se_muova
(41,005 posts)7. Glad they've been putting their parishioners' "offerings" to good use. nt