consulted by the archdiocese before releasing the accused clergy names in November 2018. On December 12, 2019, former New Orleans deacon Greg Brignac, aged 84, was arrested on a warrant accusing him of multiple acts of abuse, including raping an altar boy he met while teaching at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in the late 1970s. Brignac posted a $1 million bail, but didn't return home and was immediately hospitalized after breaking his back in jail. In June 2020, Brignac, who remained hospitalized since December 2019, died while still awaiting trial. In December 2020, details describing a history of Brignac's alleged abuse were made public. On May 8, 2020, it was revealed that the leader of the board of directors for one of the archdiocese's various ministries resigned his post recently after claiming in a lawsuit against the church that he was molested by one of its priests decades ago. The plaintiff who spoke on anonymity, claimed he resigned under duress. The archdiocese, which mediated a settlement in 2019, had previously agreed to pay for expenses which the plaintiff paid for six years of counseling. However, the plaintiff filed his lawsuit on April 7, 2020, after claiming that he discovered that the priest who allegedly molested him, James Collery, had more victims. Collery died in 1987. The lawsuit also claimed that the plaintiff first reported the abuse in 2013. On May 19, 2020, it was revealed that all surviving accused clergy who served in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans had their payments suspended as part of the bankruptcy settlement, though some were trying to get their payments reinstated. Among those who tried to restore payment was retired Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans priest Paul Calamari, who tried to get his pension reinstated by admitting to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith Grabill on May 18, 2020, that he had a “failing” and a “sin” with a 17-year-old high school boy in 1973. On November 5, 2020, it was revealed that the Catholic Church paid one of Calamari's alleged victims $100,000 two years before deeming sex abuse allegations against him as credible. The father of alleged victim, known as Mark Vath, was also Calamari's cousin. On August 19, 2020, Fr. Brian Highfill was added to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans' list of credibly accused clergy nearly two decades after his alleged actions of sex abuse were first