A state Supreme Court judge has temporarily halted payments from the region’s Catholic churches to the Buffalo diocese to help pay for child sex abuse lawsuits. State Supreme Court Justice John DelMonte issued his order last week in a lawsuit brought by several Buffalo-area Catholic Church officials. An Aug. 6 deadline has been set by DelMonte while the Buffalo Diocese formulates a response to the decision. The decision only affects the churches in the lawsuit, according to a recent story by the Catholic News Agency, with Holy Apostles Parish joining the suit last week. “It ...