it was a stunning letter and leningrad about it in the "boston globe." lenin is now exerting this same ruthless blueprint of social darwinism on many parishes and cleveland. so, if you believe that churches are property that should be owned by the bishop as in the little town of kansas, ohio where the bishop bishop seized the church, took the parish funds, used it to pay his lawyer and then demolished it, then you may not want to read this book. if all that is okay, go to danielle steel. [laughter] no disrespect to her, and i'm pleased to say that in a tweet yesterday ann rice has endorsed this book. [laughter] on the other hand if you want to know how money moves in this church, i think in modesty that i've done a pretty good job. this is not the full financial anatomy of the church. it would take years to do that, but in this church, the movement of money is inherently a story of personality, how different bishops govern. one final point and then we can open the floor to discussion. the reason i focused on los angeles is because cardinal roger mahony w