Cardinal Roger Mahony: LA Times' Steve Lopez says the settlement was all about keeping the cardinal off the stand

• Bill Maher on the Catholic Church shelling out $660 million in child molestation suits. [The Huffington Post]
• An archdiocese and 508 victims. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• It wasn't about those kids--the Church cared about protecting Cardinal Mahony. [The Los Angeles Times]
• Israel set to release 250 Palestinian prisoners on July 20th. [BBC]
• R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet," a soap-opera-soul-saga, to be continued...[Rolling Stone]
• Speaking of sagas, the latest from Washington on David “Diaperman” Vitter. [Wonkette]
• Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al Bayati, stays in Trump Tower for $22,000/month. [The New York Post]
• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatens filibuster to move ahead with troop withdrawal plans. [Truthdig]