So, there was never an outside audit?  And if there was slipshod oversight in this place, where else?  

This is just another story of something that gets reported over and over again but bishops don't learn the lesson. And, as you point out Michael, this isn't some unexplored, esoteric unknown area of research.  There are experts in the world, many of them Catholic, who could lend their expertise to parishes and dioceses and archdioceses in how to set up better financial management and oversight systems.  

I wonder if Chaput understands that each time there is another report of priestly malfeasance it is another reason to know that priests are just as human as the next person, just as fallible, and that "ontological change" is a not a measure of the honesty and integrity of a person, of the trust due that person.  

Another stone removed from the base of the pedestal of clericalism.  How many are left?