"But even worse — what does Dolan’s whiny deflecting and excuse-making say about the church as an arbiter of ethical values? These pompous assholes run around in their poofy robes and dresses shaking smoke-filled decanters with important expressions on their faces and pretending to great insight about grace and humility, but here we have the head of the largest Diocese in America teaching his entire congregation that when caught committing a terrible sin, the appropriate response is to blame the media and pull the “All the other kids were doing it, too!” stunt!"

Matt Taibbi, who’s actually being pretty measured about the whole thing.

The past few weeks have made me feel physically ill about going to Catholic school all those years. For some reason it’s much worse in my stomach than it was during the last major wave of revelations.