Archdiocese funds find way back home

Jim Stingl writes in his column in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Nick Jordan, one of the California plaintiffs who settled with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on claims that Father Franklyn Becker sexually abused him as a child.

Jordan's settlement was $2 million, but after the lawyers' cut he received about $1.2 million.

He is giving 10% of that, or about $120,000, to The Healing Center and the Sexual Assault Treatment Center, both in Milwaukee; The Counseling Center of Milwaukee; and the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Madison.

Jordan now works in the motion picture industry but says he is considering becoming a priest.