This is disappointing. I have been accepting it on faith that Myers is one of the good guys. Regarding the $600,000 house, are you sure you're not thinking about the new bishop on Long Island? That was certainly a scandal where he sold the moderate-size suburban home and spent millions to kick some nuns out of a huge old convent and convert it into a episcopal palace complete with temperature-controlled wine cellar, jacuzzi, etc.
That's Bishop Murphy, and Bill O'Reilly took off after him last Wednesday. As I recall, O'Reilly said the renovation cost well over a million dollars. And, he mentioned that Archbishop Myers had spent $600,000 on a new house (but I've read about that somewhere else, too).
It's a pretty fair gauge of a cleric to look at what he spends on himself. I knew an old Monsignor back in the '70s in North Dallas who spent parish money at the race track (and he had to travel to these racetracks because there weren't any in Texas at the time). If he won anything, he'd split the winnings with the parish!
Look for documentation on the house and, if there is documentation, bear in mind that real estate is rather expensive in New Jersey.
Why am I betting that the Long Island bishop is a full-fledged AmChurch leftist type?