Catholic radio talkshow host Jeff Cavins did an interview with CBS News the other day surrounding the controversy over its reporting of a secret document purporting to be a “smoking gun” in the Catholic sex abuse scandal. Cavins says CBS engaged in “creative editing” to make it seem like he was angry not at CBS for its inaccurate (in his view) reporting, but instead furious at the Vatican. Cavins says he has a tape recording of the interview he did with the network, which proves he was sandbagged. And he wants to pay them back.

(By the way, Fr. Thomas Doyle, who provided the alleged smoking gun document to a couple of lawyers, sent an e-mail out to his list today — I’m on it — saying that the document was not the big deal that many are saying. Fr. Doyle, a canon lawyer, says if he had known the lawyers were going to release it to the media, he would have provided interpretive commentary to help people understand what it really meant.)