The order is arguing for a scheme to distribute funds to victims, but they will not get their full compensation. It is forecasting to run out of money by September.

A Catholic order which ran some of Victoria’s top schools claims it no longer has the funds to pay survivors of abuse at the hands of its clerics.

The 183-year-old congregation could be liquidated after the broader Catholic Church denied requests for financial assistance to pay survivors of clerical abuse.

One of the country’s most senior Catholic archbishops says victims of abuse at institutions operated by a group related to the order should be compensated.

Readers are appalled by legal moves by the Catholic Church’s Christian Brothers order that will leave it with no money to pay victims of its clerical abuse.

The order is arguing for a scheme to distribute funds to victims, but they will not get their full compensation. It is forecasting to run out of money by September.