$26 million

That's how much the Archdiocese of Western Washington has paid in settlements for abuse since 1987. $8 million was last year. 53 priests in the Archdiocese have had 202 allegations made against them with charges going back to 1950. Here's the Tribune's report.
This is killer quote from the spokesman for the Archdiocese:

“As long as we continue to make settlements for fair and reasonable amounts, which we have for the past 18 years,” Magnoni said, “there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to cover the costs associated with sexual abuse.”

Is there a budget you have for this? Like it's a cost of doing business? "Fair and reasonable amounts... ?" "As long as we continue ... ?"

How about not continuing abuse? And then fair and reasonable is $0.00.

The Portland and Spoke archdioceses have already filed for bankrupt. How far are we? This makes me angry.