Speaking of responsible journalism and under-edited opinion pages, here's a fun guessing game: which major U.S. newspaper published an op-ed piece on the Church's sexual abuse scandal by -- wait for it -- Sinead O'Connor? If you guessed the Washington Post, you're absolutely right! Gosh, I wonder what her opinion might be? (As they said at the Awl, "No prizes for guessing.")

Mollie Wilson O’​Reilly is editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal.

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