Weak Archbishop Weakland....

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Former Milwaukee archbishop admits shuffling abusive priests
November 13, 2008

In a deposition made public yesterday, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, the former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, conceded that he had knowingly assigned abusive priests to pastoral work and kept parishioners uninformed about the clerics' past offenses. The former archbishop's deposition came in a lawsuit in which victims of priestly abuse charge a cover-up by archdiocesan leaders. Defense lawyers have sought to avoid a trial, saying that the key witnesses are dead.

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Comments

[Atlanta Catholic]

What planet does John Marek, chief financial officer for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee think that listeners are on?

John Marek is whining that if the Church loses in DiMotto's court, it will bear the brunt of any financial award that could push the Archdiocese into bankruptcy.

Mr. Marek, H-E-L-L-O?...Do you hand out cheese and crackers with your whine? The Church has already lost! The Archdiocese of Milwaukee is already spiritually and financially bankrupt! Your employer and boss Archbishop Rembert Weakland paid off his boyfriend Paul Marcoux a settlement of $450,000 to keep his blackmailing affair quiet. Money does not last too long when you are running through blackmailing boyfriends to the tune of $450.000 per lover.

Was he hiding perverts? Of course Archbishop Weakland was shuffling molesters! The Archbishop himself molested his own position as a church leader by leading a double-life as a homosexual and using the generosity of the faithful to pay for it all.

The only benefit (if you can call it a benefit) of the revelation of Archbishop Weakland's scandal was the mainstream media pundits could no longer call it an issue of "pedophilia". This problem was now for the first time being publicly exposed as the giant pervasive elephant in the church room called homosexuality.

The best thing that could happen to this Diocese and many like them is to have to start from scratch. Plain ol' dirt is better than this kind of corruption. A poorer Church is a holier Church.

[Susan]

Yep! the Church is going to have to start from scratch, because Obama and his "civilan security force" will be taking the faithful out! Thank you idiot laity and marxists / homosexual bishops and priests! Next week when your parish asks for a donation to help CHUD" Campaign for Human Development" tell them to go ask their "messiah" Obama and his side kick "thinks he is a catholic theologian" Biden.

[martha]

Has this man been excommunicated? Is he in Jail? Has he even made a public apology? Or is he still a priest? What about all the people in his employ that helped him destroy his diocese? Are they still there?

[Patt S.]

He is aptly named.

[Simple soul]

Sadly Christ warned us in the gospels these times would await us. What better description of some of our members than wolves in sheep's clothing. I am grateful for those brave and persistent souls who have exposed them -painful though it is for us all.What keeps me going is the sure knowledge that He is with His Church and she cannot be destroyed no matter how dark our world becomes.Prayer and pennance will sustain us,

[Joseph D'Hippolito]

This man should be recalled to Rome, made to face canonical charges and, if found convicted, stripped of all ecclesiastical rank. The fact that Weakland is still a bishops speaks to the corruption pervading the Vatican, even under Benedict.

[ATHELSTAN]

The question still remains, what did Pope Benedict and his predecessor know about the full extent of prelatical involvement in the coverup of child abuse in America and elsewhere, and when did they know it? Questions cry out for answers, especially in the New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia archdioceses.
Someday, the present pope will have to answer that question or others will answer it for him. It could be the worst public relations disaster for the papacy since the reformation. Pope Benny, you can run, but you can't hide.

[Rick]

Occasionally, I read these blogs and then have to ask myself why I waste my time?

Former Archbishop Weakland did give a public apology in a copy of the Milwaukee's Catholic Herald. I found it to be a wonderful confession of his failings and yet a great testament to his final commitment to the Gift of Celibacy.

I pray that God has mercy on all of us who fall short in our attemt to Love as God demands of us. How we respond to the failings of the Archbishop is but one more example of how we Love or fail to Love.

All of us need to reflect on Matthew 25:40, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' This statement and the context in which it has been taken teaches that we must always reach out to our neighbors with the Love of God in our hearts. On that final day, will the Judge find you guilty of Love or Hate?

May you all be gifted with God's Love...

[Simple soul]

Words can be cheap.Only God knows if Archbishop Weakland is truly penitent and for his sake I hope this is the case because Jesus' words for those who scandalise his little ones were sobering ones "woe to those who scandalise my little ones ...." If little ones refers not only to those who are chronologically children but also to those who have no or limited knowledge of God then it will require a great grace and much pennance for Archbishop Weakland and those who aided and abetted him in his betrayal of his role as shepherd of souls to undo the great harm they have caused.I pray for him and the victims of his weakness.

[top hypotheek]

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