"That this left-wing order is now entangled in an embezzlement scandal in La La Land shouldn't surprise anyone. What begins in abstract theft ends in real avarice: the distance between Alinskyite "social justice," which is just a glorified, government-backed form of theft, isn't that far from secretly plundering school funds. Indeed, the ironically materialistic lifestyle of left-wing nuns who rail against materialism — they don't wear religious clothing but secular garb; they don't live in convents but in gated "townhouses" and the like — makes the costly temptations of worldly living irresistible."