The splendid Rev. George Rutler scores two points for charity.

First, for the sweetness with which he reminds me to choose my words more carefully. (All right, Father, I’ll quit adoring you. But next time I’m in New York, do I still get to buy you lunch?)

Second, for not saying what I’m going to go right ahead and blurt out: That at the very time he was drafting that pastoral letter claiming the economic policies of Ronald Reagan aggrandized the rich, ground down the face of the poor, blah, blah, blah, Archbishop Rembert Weakland was engaged in an affair that he would later use church funds to attempt to hush up. A regular pillar of rectitude, no?