The Church didn't even pay up in most cases, e.g. in Ireland. When they couldn't use lawfare to silence victims or keep cases going so long the victims died (li

The Church didn't even pay up in most cases, e.g. in Ireland. When they couldn't use lawfare to silence victims or keep cases going so long the victims died (like the victims of the Magdalene laundries), the state ended up footing most of the bill, over a billion in the case of Ireland.