About 450 clergy abuse victims, plus several hundred other creditors of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., soon will be able to vote on competing compensation plans presented in bankruptcy court, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported today. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel yesterday approved a timeline for sending out the ballots — within about 30 days — and a 40-day response time. Creditors can vote for one of two competing plans or none at all. Judge Kressel also denied a motion that would have allowed the survivors’ committee to sue more than 100 parishes, schools and other Catholic institutions that received several million dollars in transfer payments from the archdiocese in the 90 days before it filed for bankruptcy.
