SPOKANE, Wash. AP – Roman Catholic parishioners who saw the Spokane Diocese fall into bankruptcy because of sex abuse cases against their clergymen now are being asked to help pay molestation victims and bail out the diocese.
“I’ve been telling them the focus here is on the children who were hurt and doing what we can to bring them some sort of compensation, some sort of healing,” said the Rev. Edgar Borchardt, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the college and farm town of Pullman, about 80 miles south of Spokane.
