David Hammer

At a June 6 deposition, a Jesuit said the order would not have needed to let the accused priest minister at any of their institutions if they had ousted him or reported the allegations to law enforcement.

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is planning to default on paying a nearly $1m interest payment on more than $41m in bonds it sold in 2017, leading lawyers for the people who purchased the church's debt to allege in open court that it had engaged in "the definition of securities fraud".