Nuns listen Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at St. Agnes Church in Gloucester Township, N.J., during the Installation Mass naming Dennis J. Sullivan bishop of Camden's Roman Catholic Diocese. The 67-year-old Sullivan previously served as vicar general of the New York archdiocese. He succeeds Joseph Galante as leader of the Camden diocese, which serves approximately 475,000 Catholics in Cape May, Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem, Gloucester and Camden counties. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Camden Bishop
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Catholic diocese in New Jersey has agreed to pay over $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic church in the United States. The agreement between the Diocese of Camden, which encompasses six counties in southern New Jersey on the outskirts of Philadelphia, and plaintiffs was filed with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Camden on Tuesday. Details about what the roughly 300 victims alleged happened to them were not included in the proposed settlement, according to an attorney for some 70 of the victims.
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