Churches sold to compensate victims.(CANADA NOTES)(Compensation for assalted victims by catholic priests)

SYDNEY -- Compensating victims of sexual assault by a priest, a Roman Catholic diocese in Newfoundland is expected to sell all of its churches and missions.

The Catholic Diocese of St. George's told the Sydney Morning Herald it would sell about 150 properties to raise $US10.5 million for the victims of Father Kevin Bennett, who was convicted in 1990 of hundreds of sexual assaults over three decades as a priest on the west coast of the island, according to the paper.

"Everything," Bishop Douglas Crosby said. "All of the churches, all of the parish houses, all the missions."

After pleading guilty and being sentenced to four years in prison, Bennett is …