Grant Gallicho   By this author    Commonweal klatch.  Over the
summer, our talented summer interns put together a program for
Commonweal readers to gather in person to discuss issues covered
by their favorite magazine. Like a blog comment thread, but
nicer. So far we have nine such groups from California to New
York. The first Commonweal Reader Community met earlier this
month in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the home of Gene and Marjorie
Audette.  Twelve years ago.    Blast from Archbishop Myers's
past. (UPDATED)  The Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, has agreed to
pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that Archbishop
John J. Myers--who served there as bishop from 1990 to 2001--
failed to remove a priest from ministry despite having evidence
that he had abused a minor. (Myers, you'll recall, has come in
for some criticism regarding his handling of accused priests in
his current diocese, Newark.)  The plaintiff, Andrew Ward, now
twenty-five, accused the late Rev. Thomas Maloney of molesting
him in 1995 and '96,