text: I do not trust Cardinal Dolan or any Bishop in the Catholic Church. When the sexual abuse of children by priests began to attain public scrutiny, the Church tried to keep the whole thing quiet by offering to pay victims for their silence. In Lafayette, Louisiana the parents of many of the boys who were abused accepted much less money than they should have received because those parents were poor farmers and wanted to put the whole ordeal behind them.  They had no idea the suffering their boys would go through. I believe that Cardinal Dolan sees the writing on the wall.  Eventually Statute of Limitations reform will pass in New York. Dolan can try to circumvent this happening by settling claims now at a lower cost than having to settle many more claims later. This is a cost cutting move and has nothing to do with any change in how abuse victims have been treated.