The Archdiocese of San Francisco filed for bankruptcy Monday, the latest in a string of Catholic dioceses to seek chapter 11 protection to deal with sex abuse lawsuits filed since more than a dozen states passed laws temporarily suspending deadlines on such cases.
The Archdiocese said it faces 500 lawsuits over allegations of childhood sex abuse following California’s 2019 decision to suspend the statute of limitations on abuse claims that would otherwise be cut off by the statute of limitations. San Francisco joins several…