Posted on 05/11/2009 7:27:29 PM PDT by traumer
NEW YORK (AP) A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man has written a memoir that describes how he struggled with being gay.
Archbishop Rembert Weakland, former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, "is up front about his homosexuality in a church that preferred to ignore gays," Publisher's Weekly wrote in a review Monday.
The book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop," is set to be released in June and is described by the publisher as a self-examination by Weakland of his "psychological, spiritual and sexual growth."
The Vatican says that men with "deep-seated" attraction to other men should not be ordained.
Weakland stepped down quickly after Paul Marcoux, a former Marquette University theology student, revealed in May 2002 that he was paid $450,000 to settle a sexual assault claim he made against the archbishop more than two decades earlier. The money came from the archdiocese.
Marcoux went public at the height of anger over the clergy sex abuse crisis, when Catholics and others were demanding that dioceses reveal the extent of molestation by clergy and how much had been confidentially spent to settle claims.
Weakland denied ever assaulting anyone. He apologized for concealing the payment.
In an August 1980 letter that was obtained by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Weakland said he was in emotional turmoil over Marcoux and signed the letter, "I love you."
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Oh and btw, it’s really easy to come up with that number when you say, “ There are loose statistics out there because many priests do not want to reveal their sexual orientation. Some have talked, but remain in the closet.”
Time magazine is going to find the stats that work.
I will!
The fact is, even if you pick the lowest number out of all these statistics you still have a disproportionate number of gays in the priesthood. Even if you cut the lowest number IN HALF it's STILL a disproportionate number. I just picked the middle of all these projections. Fine, I'll give you even half of the lowest number. Now what? No more issue?
You are correct. However, that does not address those who are already in.
I’m a pretty plain-spoken person, so I would probably tell the ladies of the parish, “You’re not following the Catholic model in the way you run the parish - you’re running it like a Methodist Ladies’ Aid. That’s scaring Catholics away.” And as they stared at me with their mouths at half-cock, I’d add, “Try letting the priest run the parish. It’s his job.”
I assume you have a straight-up faithful bishop and good priests - that attracts seminarians like nothing else.
“Just another reason why *all* Roman Catholic priests,not just some,should be allowed to be married.”
Agree. The celibacy thing is a man-made “law”, i.e., not found in Scripture. If the law can be made by man, it can be rescinded by man. Celibacy isn’t normal, and it’s wrong to demand it.
>>- youre running it like a Methodist Ladies Aid.<<
They would have smiled. That’s what they were shooting for.
The Vatican is addressing the subject.
I will leave it to them.
Weakland probably recognizes the nearness of high school boys.
Normal married men, away from their wives for a month, do not go lusting after the newspaper boy.
Please. Everyone knew that Rembert was lavender. It’s an utter disgrace what he did to that diocese.
Read Goodbye, Good Men which details the active recruitment of lavender queens to the priesthood and the active suppression of vocations among many normal males. Talk to a few normal young men in the priesthood and there are plenty of them. The quality of applicants would rapidly decline and the stability of the priesthood generally would suffer. In a sex-saturated society, we are invited by many to drink the Kool-Aid that everyone simply must be just another bunny.
That's true.But define "scandal".And priests wouldn't be allowed to divorce any more than "ordinary" Catholics are.Annulments may be granted in some cases as happens with some "ordinary" Catholics.
Anyone who simply must marry AND be a priest has the Eastern rites of Catholicism available.
So Latin rite countries will either have no priests or nothing but homosexual priests in 10-20 years?
Read Goodbye, Good Men which details the active recruitment of lavender queens to the priesthood and the active suppression of vocations among many normal males.
OK...so then the Holy Father himself needs to step in and rectify this.
Talk to a few normal young men in the priesthood and there are plenty of them.
I'm sure there are normal men (young and old) serving as priests today.But I'll wager that,in this country at least,they represent a small percentage of the total.
What about zero tolerance?
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