(2003-09-10) — Hundreds of Roman Catholic parishioners in Boston today filed a class-action lawsuit for the return of more than $85 million of their money which their archdiocese plans to give to hundreds of victims of sexually abusive priests.
The lawsuit claims that money contributed to the church over the past five decades by thousands of parishioners was intended to feed the poor and advance the work of the church.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, in a written response, said, “The money actually belongs to God, not the parishioners. It will be used to ease the mental anguish of those who sinned by placing their trust in priests and bishops, whom we all know are merely sinful men themselves. The Archbishop would like to remind these greedy litigants that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley has ordered the “mammon-loving parishioners” to be secretly transferred to another archdiocese.

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