The Church’s annus horribilis continues: last Thursday Belgian police sealed off St Rumbold’s Cathedral in Mechelen, detaining the nine bishops who were meeting there. They seized computers and hundreds of files and broke into the tombs of the anti-Nazi Cardinal van Roey and the Vatican II reformer Cardinal Suenens. The police also raided the home of the retired Cardinal Godfried Danneels and the offices of the Adriaenssens Commission, the body established by the Church to examine abuse allegations.