The ongoing scandal(s), 2

• Mark Kleiman, Follow the money
• Mark Kleiman, All deliberate speed
• John Allen, Keeping the record straight on Benedict and the crisis
• Andrew Sullivan, The third strike (and much, much more)

I find all this terribly dispiriting even though it's been decades since I paid any attention to anything a bishop or pope has said or done. I can only begin to imagine how devastating all this must be for those who are deeply invested in the institutional church.