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Regarding claims and judgements to be paid in sex abuse tort litigation, the amount of the judgment or claim which can be paid is limited to what assets the Catholic dioceses owns.
Available assets of the dioceses can be reduced by simply incorporating some portion (such as a parish) as a separate legal entity from the diocese.
But if the bishop is the only member of the parish corporation, the majority of the Board of Directors are clergy which the bishop controls, and the bishop can dispose of (ie. sell or transfer) parish property, can it really be mantained that the parishioners, even if they hold the deed, actually own and exercise property rights over their parish property?
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