(No, not “Episcopal” as in ECUSA…they have enough problems. Small “e” on this one. )
Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville has issued an apology for using funds designated for the missions and evangelization to purchase new furnishings for the chancery.
The LA Chancery has been sold.
John Allen has a long, interesting profile of Cardinal Law in Rome – 5 years since his resignation from Boston.

Law prepares assiduously for meetings, these sources said, poring over preparatory materials and drawing on his network of international contacts. Since he’s based in Rome, he can participate on a more regular basis. (The normal pattern is for Roman cardinals who belong to a given dicastery to attend its regular business meetings — twice a month in the case of the Congregation for Bishops — while cardinals elsewhere sometimes come only for annual plenary assemblies.)
Yet no source could point to a single appointment since Law’s arrival in Rome in 2004, whether to a diocese in the United States or elsewhere, or in the Vatican itself, that seemed unambiguously to bear Law’s fingerprints.
On bishops’ appointments, these sources said, Law has earned a reputation for being “objective,” which, in Vatican argot, means that he does not appear to be angling to get his friends appointed. Rather, they say, he looks at the names recommended by the nuncio, or papal ambassador, and offers a candid assessment.
Law is one of four Americans who sit on the Congregation for Bishops, the others being Levada, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, and Cardinal Francis Stafford of the Apostolic Penitentiary. By most accounts, Rigali and Levada exercise greater influence; both Archbishops Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., and Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee, for example, are former auxiliaries of Rigali from St. Louis, while Levada was instrumental in sending his friend and seminary classmate George Niederauer to San Francisco.
Vatican sources say that even absent the sex abuse crisis, Law’s influence would probably be diminished today because his longtime friend, Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, is no longer the private secretary to the pope.
More broadly, church-watchers say, it’s difficult to find evidence that Law is using his role to shape events in the American church. At least in Boston, Cardinal Sean O’Malley has said publicly that he does not consult with Law prior to making decisions. Sources in the Boston chancery who spoke to NCR confirmed that assertion, saying they’ve never seen O’Malley contact Law prior to taking an important step.
Law’s friends insist he doesn’t aspire to wield long-distance control.
“He’s moved on,” one said. “He’s aware of what’s happening [in America], but he’s not trying to manipulate things.”
That, of course, is a friendly perspective. Critics often argue that whatever Law’s actual influence, the fact that he sits on the Congregation for Bishops, the Vatican office responsible not only for appointing bishops but also for correcting their misconduct, is testament to an enormous bit of unfinished business — the absence of any mechanism for holding bishops accountable for mismanagement in the same firm fashion that priests are now held accountable for abuse.

Finally, pray for Archbishop Buechlein of Indianpolis, who has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Oh, and then there’s the whole SLU basketball coach – Archbishop Burke business.