Follow the Golf Ball

If you can’t follow the money, take a tour of the real estate. That’s what Joe Feuerherd did when the Roman Catholic archiocese of Detroit stonewalled his requests for more information about the investors who made its new luxury hotel — complete with a golf course named for the gospels — possible when the Church has been busy shutting down schools. Feuerherd’s a first-rate investigative reporter, but not even he could squeeze an answer out of the Church — and he was calling for The National Catholic Reporter. So he took the story bigger — there doesn’t need to be sex for a story to be about accountability.