His roundup – not much insider stuff, but a summary:

More round-up of news and commentary at American Papist.

And finally, Diogenes at Catholic World News has sober thoughts:

Those inclined to believe Maciel innocent haven’t been done any favors by the LC communications squad, which regularly manages to increase the very suspicions it sets out to allay. Case in point: Maciel’s censure has been an open secret in Rome for two months; yet when John Allen asked for a reaction to the censure on the eve of its publication he got the reply, "We have nothing to say. We don’t know anything about this." The first sentence would have sufficed

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To us spectators, the Maciel Affair has been particularly exasperating because it brought into conjunction two vexing traditions of (shall we say) "abbreviating the truth" — the LC’s, in service of its institutional defensiveness; the Holy See’s, in service of what may be charitably termed charity and less-charitably termed saving face: la bella figura. It’s time for a change. Just as Pope John Paul II permitted some of the ugliness and weakness of age to be put on view, the better to witness to its inherent dignity, perhaps the Holy See, and orders such as the Legionaries, can risk more candor about the ugliness and weakness of their human endeavors, the better to witness to God’s grace at work.