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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport has filed a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court announcing its intentions to sell a bishop's house, a single-family home and a 25-acre farm. The motion is part of the group's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing as protection against claims of sexual abuse by its priests.

According to reports this morning, the diocese has owned the properties for several years and no longer have any use for them. The two homes are assessed at a total of roughly $278,000. The farm is valued at over $300,000.

While not included in the filed motion, there are rumors that the chancery, worth more than $2 million, will also be sold.

Yet no bankruptcy proceedings, selling of properties or monetary exchange can fix what, by all accounts, the Catholic church allowed to happen in many of its own parishes.