New Orleans (APP)-Archbishop of the Catholic Church of New Orleans denied that he had ousted the top leadership at the Food Bank affiliated to the Church of Louisiana. Sexual abuse of pastors According to a video statement that he published this week.
Two members of the dismissed board have issued statements stating that they were removed last week by Archbishop Gregory Eyemand, the Archbishop Gregory Eyemand of New Orleans, after setting up a channel up to 16 million to help the church. Long -lasting bankruptcy negotiations With hundreds of sexual abuse.
Greater New Orleans and Acadiana’s second Food Bank says it provides more than 39 million pounds and grocery to hundreds of thousands of families in southern Louisiana annually.
CEO Natalie Prison, who led the organization for 19 years before being fired, “to help eliminate hunger and food insecurity in southern Louisiana, according to a statement from the board chairbart January 30,” Donor refuses to completely dismiss the donor funds. ” Wilson issued a public relations firm.
Jelro did not respond to the request for a comment sent by LinkedIn on Wednesday.
Wilson expressed “tremendous sympathy” for those who were abusive with the priests but said that taking money from the Food Bank “would” be morally inappropriate as it is legally uncertain, “contracts with donors On the basis.
Eyammond said he “rejected the features of the Arch Device as he stole money from the hungry” Video Posted on his Facebook page on Monday.
Emund said members of the other Harvest Board had repeatedly asked him to withdraw from his post of non -profit surveillance. According to the articles of non -profit articles seen by the Associated Press, Archbishop has the only power to remove other crop executives and board members.
Million was “discussed in theory and conversation” at 16 million to purchase the church -owned assets and “completely separate itself,” said Eyimand said.
He said that the decision to remove the CEO and board members was decided because they refused to sign the “Tooling Agreement”, which to the third -party institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church during bankruptcy talks. Saved from responsibility, he added that the last date for signing was January. 31.
In response to the video of Emund, Board Member Nick Carl contested the deadline established by the court, which was established by the court, was actually on May 1st and the second crop executive team to review it. Was in the process.
“That the arc device eliminated the three members of the board and jumped the gun and the non -profit CEO speaks of the volumes related to their motivations,” Carl said.
He said that Archbishop has made no pledge against drawing on other crop funds to help solve the claims of the church bankruptcy in the future.
Amand appointed Dirk Wild as the Interim CEO, the Chief Financial Officer of the Arch Device and nominated three new members of the board. In a joint statement released last week, Emund and Wilde said that the second crop priority is that “daily operations are to ensure that daily operations will remain on schedule and the services will continue without interruption.”
Wild did not respond to text messages or phone calls requesting comment on Wednesday. New Orleans Communications Director Sarah McDonald’s Arch Device refused to comment.
“There is no dollar and no dollar will go to anything … besides food security,” said John Sellers, the other chief strategy officer of Harvest. He is trying to assure non -profit donors that their projects will continue to be planned.
The second Harvest Donor Feeding United States said in a statement that “resources are used for their desired purposes” promises must be respected. “
James Adams, who have survived abuse with pastors, who has sued the Arch Device, said Emund Food Bank can “easily remove” with its control and non -profit without any work. Allows to move forward.
Adams said of abusive cases, “survivors just want to settle the matter.” “The Arch Device is making no choice for its lenders if they want to try and come to a settlement but have to go to all the assets that are under the control of the Archbishop.”
Calls have been blasphemous by people who are abusive to resign to the New Orleans Church Federal Investigations were encountered And examine the failure to take action on credible charges against the priests for decades. A Inquest The Associated Press also exposed the role of executives with NFL’s New Orleans Saints to help overcome the damage to the church.
The church sells more than 13 million worth of properties because it funds the payment of survivors, NOLA.com reported In December
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