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Owe Big for Pedophile Priests? Boot Some Nuns
Ever since the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay sex abuse victims $660 million in July, I've been waiting with bated breath to learn what the Church would liquidate first. Mind you, the L.A. archdiocese is one of the wealthiest in the country, and one of the largest landowners in Southern California. So what would it be? Wheelchairs used by homeless people? Headgear worn by mentally handicapped children?

Turns out, I wasn't far off. Yesterday's Washington Post reported the Church is evicting three elderly nuns living in a small building in a largely Hispanic, relatively poor section of Santa Barbara. One of the nuns, 69-year-old Sister Angela Escalera, has diabetes and can't get around without a walker, which the Church, hopefully, is not making her leave behind when she has to hit the streets by Dec. 31. That's the date specified on the eviction notice signed by the archdiocese's Monsignor Royale Vadakin. An earlier departure, the letter added, "would be acceptable as well."

"We're just so hurt by this," Sister Angela told the Los Angeles Times previously. "We're not even worth a phone call." But in yesterday's Post piece, Sister Angela's younger sister, Rosemary Gutierrez, had to do all the talking for her because church officials have now banned the nuns from speaking to the press....