[marshmallow]

"..........and why Catholic teaching on homosexuality is wrong."

I think we all knew that Weakland did not accept key points of Catholic teaching but it's nice to finally see it in black and white.

Weakland essentially destroyed a diocese and had a far more widespread, pernicious influence on Catholicism in America thanks to his encouragement of the lavendar mafia who corrupted seminaries which in turn produced child abusers by the dozen and nearly bankrupted whole dioceses due to abuse settlements.

And here he is playing the "victim".

[a fool in paradise]

The scandal was escalating... Yet the culture of corruption of naughty teachers in public schools is just supposed to be a bunch of isolated cases with no coverups or patterns of profile.

And what of the UN’s own sex scandals?

Churches of all sorts have predators. So do other “trusted” institutions. The Boy Scouts aren't supposed to be suspicious of grown men who want to have overnight stays with young boys. Especially if they are known homosexuals.

[Terabitten]

If we say our God is an all-loving god

How does anyone who believes that ever become an archbishop to begin with?

God HATES sin.

[pgkdan]

Weakland is a disgusting old pervert...the absolute worst of a bad lot of American bishops following Vatican II. He should be sent to a monestary and ordered to silence.

Archbishop Weakland, 82, said he was probably the first bishop to come out of the closet voluntarily.

Voluntarily???? His fag lover goes on national TV and accuses him of rape and allows his gushing, girlie love letter to be published and he calls that comong out voluntarily? Stupid old fag.

[Alex Murphy]

In spring 2002, as the scandal over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was escalating, the long career of Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee, one of the church’s most venerable voices for change, went up in flames one May morning. On the ABC program “Good Morning America,” the archbishop watched a man he had fallen in love with 23 years earlier say in an interview that the Milwaukee archdiocese had paid him $450,000 years before to keep quiet about his affair with the archbishop — an affair the man was now calling date rape.

marshmallow: I think we all knew that Weakland did not accept key points of Catholic teaching but it's nice to finally see it in black and white. Weakland essentially destroyed a diocese and had a far more widespread, pernicious influence on Catholicism in America thanks to his encouragement of the lavendar mafia who corrupted seminaries which in turn produced child abusers by the dozen and nearly bankrupted whole dioceses due to abuse settlements.

I wholly agree with your assessment, I would disagree only on one small point. What's scandalous is not how Weakland could rise to the position of Archbishop and do all this damage, while denying key points of Catholic teaching.

What's scandalous is how he got the promotion. Who promoted him? Who was he accountable to, who was his overseer? Who left him in the position, and why?

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
-- Genesis 4:9

[annalex]

From the NYT 2002 article:

Some of the archbishop's admirers yesterday bemoaned the coda to the career of a bishop considered a Renaissance man and one of the few remaining liberal prelates.

''Archbishop Weakland has been a leading figure in calling for progressive reforms in our church and justice in our society,'' said Dan Daley, co-director of Call to Action, a 25,000-member church reform group based in Chicago. ''It's always shocking to hear of sex-abuse allegations, especially toward bishops.''

Margaret Steinfels, editor of the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal, said, ''It is a tragedy that legitimate concerns about the sexual abuse of children by priests is turning into a sexual witch hunt.'' She called the archbishop's involvement with Mr. Marcoux ''perhaps an indiscretion, perhaps a grave sin.''

Accused of Sexual Assault, Archbishop Seeks to Retire (Friday, May 24, 2002)

[rscully]

‘If we say our God is an all-loving god,” he said, “how do you explain that at any given time probably 400 million living on the planet at one time would be gay? Are the religions of the world, as does Catholicism, saying to those hundreds of millions of people, you have to pass your whole life without any physical, genital expression of that love?”’

God loves his children, just as we love our own, no matter what they do. That does not mean that He or we can excuse or condone ANY action He considers sin. He expects us to harness our carnal desires and live according to His laws -not sucumb to our weaknesses. He expects us to trust Him and lean upon Him during our times of trial and temptation so we can live in such a way that we can return to our Heavenly Home. He expects us to partake of the gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ so we can can, step by step, one day be worthy of the Kingdom of God. I’m no longer Catholic, but this issue is relevant to all religions that believe in Christ. It’s the ol’ “love the sinner, not the sin” concept.

I love the parting words in Ann Coulter’s book, “Godless” because it so beautifully makes the point: “Religious people have certain rules bsed on a book with lots of witnesses to that faith. God is not our secret Santa. His commands are not whatever we want them to be, and the Bible is not a “living” document...These rules are decreed by a legislator whose opinions are not subject to appeal by the ACLU. We can’t discover penumbras that will suddenly allow us to endorse genocide, sex with animals, gay marriage, strip clubs, premarital sex, or whatever the latest liberal fad is. The truth is the truth whether we like it our not.”

[Antoninus]

Weakland was better off keeping his trap shut. Now, I pray, someone in the Church will close it for him.

[livius]

Why doesn’t his order (Benedictines) forbid him to speak? He was sent off to a monastery to do penance, and instead he’s swanning around on the talk show circuit, boasting about his sins.

[sockmonkey]

People I wish would shut the heck up:
Meghan McCain and Bishop Weakland

[massmike]

I think the Bible had something to say about “bishops” like this....

“In the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions” 1 Timothy 4:1

“For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,but,following their own desires and insatiable curiosity,will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and be diverted to myths” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

“Therefore,God is sending them a deceiving power so that they might believe the lie,that all who have not believed the truth but have approved wrongdoing may be condemned” 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

“There will be false teachers among you,who will introduce destructive heresies and even deny the master who ransomed them,bringing swift destruction on themselves.Many will follow their licentious ways,and because of them the way of truth will be reviled” 2 Peter 2:1-2

“For even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.So it is not strange that his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness” 2 Corinthians 11:14-15

“In the last days scoffers will come to scoff,living according to their own desires” 2 Peter 3:3

“These people are complainers,disgruntled ones who live by their desires;their mouths utter bombast as they fawn over people to gain advantage: Jude 1:16

[Desdemona]

Why do they have to dig up the ones we are better off without?

[Landru]

>ping<

Just a FYI bub as I'm sure you couldn't have missed the disgrace resurfacing to shill his shameless life story which *somehow* in his shameless mind, justifies all.

Don't recall hearing whether or not the pathetic chicken hawk's been thrown out of the church, or not.

If he hasn't, the shame's now Rome's.

[dangus]

>> how bishops and the Vatican cared more about the rights of abusive priests than about their victims; <<

So this guy rapes a boy,
joins a “lavendar mafia” of boy-rapists to pervert the teachings of the church,
gets busted and ousted by the church,
defends his predatory lifestyle,
and complains the church did not do enough about the boy-rapists???