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@Protoclete is correct as relates to the Roman Catholic Church. His use of episcopal is lower case in this instance by design.

To be determined. There is a part of our population that will "sign up" for any mass claim action. It's sad: https://topclassactions.com/ Anyway, what the Trust will do to address this is TBD but at some point it has to decide how long it'll work on each $3500 before it isn't cost effective.

Just to be clear, the only thing being proposed to the court is the start of the "administrative side" of the Trust. This is so that Judge Houser can start working (she has already accrued hours) and start to put in place the professionals that will provide the infrastructure for claims management, questionnaire construction, money management, independent review and all the rest. There will still be significant delays but at least if the plan and Trust go active at some point then some legwork will have given it a bit of a head start.

I was wondering when BSA was going to start this process. I question if it would have any impact on the district court, but I know some professors/reporters on bankruptcy have stated appeals can run into trouble if the court determines the appeal is moot. As you state, if BSA basically says there is no other path left because everyone already paid into the plan and the plan started, the court (unless it acts quickly) would kill the appeal even if it could have some merits. I guess the risk would be if the court tells BSA too bad, you shouldn't have started, but BSA would be in serious troubl

Jesse, more than anything, your council needs adult leaders who will take Scouts camping and deliver the promise of adventure at the unit level. This is the heart of Scouting. If you do not have the heart to take them into the woods, then be an active committee member for a unit, and provide administrative support for those who do take on the task of outdoor adventure. Anything you can do to lighten their load will help them deliver more adventure for the youth. Examples include managing all the Troop medical forms, helping to mentor a youth in a support role (like Webmaster, Historia

Those "little monsters" had a standing invitation to join my Webelos den when I was a Webelos den leader. Soon everybody in the district caught wind of the fact that all the troublemakers, learning-impaired, and bad apples were welcome in my den, and in they came. But funny how, once those kids knew that I had already decided to love them before even meeting them, and once I proved that it was so by repeating it to them in no uncertain terms, over and over, every last one of them eventually came to believe that they were not as bad as they had been told. Because kids believe what grown ups tel

I must vehemently express my sincere and seasoned belief that there is NO SUCH THING as a "bad" kid. Badly behaved kids, sure, in spades. Bad behaviors - more than I can count. These are things children learn from the imperfect world around them. But there never has been a bad child - only children who have been fooled into believing they are such by foolish adults who have deceived themselves into thinking that the wrongs committed by children who haven't taught better must somehow be the fault of the children themselves - and surely, they claim, not of the grown-ups who misunderstand and thu