GAY?
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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We have three seminarians from our parish alone.
Our former parochial vicar, who is a really neat guy and a man's man, is now the archdiocesan director of vocations. He has a full time staff of two, and just hired another priest to help him full time.
We have the Vianney Club for high school boys who are considering a vocation, the 31 Club for laypersons who pray all 31 days of the month for the intentions of our seminarians, and the Alter Christus Society that sponsors our seminarians.
If your diocese embraces "that old-time religion" - authentic, orthodox, enthusiastic, devout Catholicism, you will have no priest shortage. We prove it every day here.
If not, look at the statistics for child abuse among Christian non-Catholic clergy. The numbers should quickly disabuse you of the notion that Catholic celibacy is the problem.
A lack of holiness of applicants and significantly important disorders on the part of those choosing clergy candidates to the seminaries would probably be a good point of examination for you.
I do not wish to be personally critical, but these types of free form spoutings about manifestations of evil really push my button.
Please take the time to become educated about these perverts.
The minions of the Devil, who die unrepentant, and who continue to prey upon the innocent, deserve a special place of suffering in Hell.
My last observation is very much a matter of sorrow for me. I am no more or less a child of God, than Thomas Aquinas or Pol Pot. Each of us must freely choose to do God's will or face the consequences. Too many people choose their own will over that manifested by God.
Not only have they missed Heaven, but they also missed Purgatory, God's ever clear understanding and mercy on humankind.
Sursum Corda
What brilliant explanation do you have for the behavior of all of these deviants, most of whom are married, you nitwit?
And paid out $450,000 that wasn’t his.
I hear through the ecclesiastical grapevine that it involved threats of physical harm by a very large Irish priest who used to be a heavyweight boxer . . . .
They need to bring in some good Polish priests, they don’t tolerate fags in Poland.
It’s not a surprise there. Everyone knew it anyway. It’s like saying “I lost” after the 4th quarter has been over for a few months.
Define "we".Is it just your diocese...or parish? What's the median age of priests in this country today? Sixty-three? Seventy? And what's it expected to be 10 years from now? Seventy-five? Why is it that I read these days that our local seminary (the only one in Massachusetts,IIRC) has graduating classes consisting of three men? You may be overflowing with applicants in your neck of the woods but I believe the national...and worldwide....picture is *much* more bleak.
It was S.O.P. for the communist government in Poland to accuse priests they wanted to get rid of of homosexual activity. So JPII, being from a quite different culture than that of the liberal, lax church in America, let things go unchecked for far too long because he thought much of it was anti-Catholicism rather than actual misconduct.
Boy,you really know how to carry on a discussion,my brother/sister in Christ.Perhaps you should be asking Our Savior for some humility.Once you do,get back to me and we'll talk.
If you look at the numbers across the country, there's a direct correlation between orthodoxy and vocations.
The heterodox, lukewarm, touchy-feely, New Agey dioceses are dead in the water. I know that one of our Catholic FReepers lives in upstate NY under a horribly liberal bishop, and vocations are essentially zero and parishes are being closed left and right. Those dioceses skew the averages.
But the dioceses with bishops who are ready to stand up and lead, and teach true Catholic doctrine without fear or favor, have young men flocking to serve the Church.
The solution is obvious, and BXVI is doing his part by appointing bishops who are orthodox, devout, and brave. They will set the tone for their flock.
Well said.
Respectfully wrong. If a priest has either heterosexual or homosexual tendencies he must be equipped by prayer and fasting to cast aside these temptations. The homosexual element in the Catholic priesthood is no higher than in other professions where individuals are free to marry.
You are a mental eunuch.
Try closing your tags first, Einstein.
Oh, he knows everyone knows, he just wanted to feel important and act like it is someone’s fault except his own. The evil one has a tight hold on him.
I’m with you.
I know that being heterosexual isn't an absolute guarantee of no perversion.Ditto with married men.But *all* active homosexuals are pervs and,IMO,it's reasonable to assume that,today,*all* homosexuals are "active".So it's a question of "some" vs "most"...if not "all".
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