CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 10:52 am

A Missouri appeals court has ordered that an alleged victim of clergy sexual abuse can sue the Archdiocese of St. Louis, ruling that an arcane aspect of bankruptcy law does not negate the archdiocese’s potential liability for abuse that the plaintiff allegedly repressed for decades.

The case touches on both the complex character of U.S. bankruptcy statutes as well as the often-protracted nature of abuse allegations, which frequently only come to light years or decades after the abuse is alleged to have occurred.

In its Oct. 14 ruling , the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District said the alleged victim, John Doe, claims to have been abused at the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in the late 1980s.

Doe alleges that Father Alexander Anderson, who was as

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