It's hard to say who has the moral high ground in a series of cases pitting the Catholic Church against its insurance companies over coverage of payments to victims of molestation.

On one hand, shouldn't any diocese that turned a blind eye to pedophile priests be punished monetarily? But what if that means that church goes bankrupt, with no assets left to pay the victims? Is that justice?

A federal bankruptcy judge in Minnesota last week sided with the Diocese of Duluth and its outside counsel from Blank Rome on a key coverage question, a decision that may reverberate in other sex abuse cases pending across the nation.