1980 Letter from Weakland to Marcoux

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | May 23, 2002 | Rembert Weakland

[Palladin]

Breaking up is hard to do.

[sinkspur]

Yuk. Marcoux is definitely blackmailing Weakland, but with syrupy goo like this letter, Weakland brought it on himself.

Gay blackmail of churchmen will be phase two of this scandal.

[Savage Beast]

Looks like mother was right.

[Palladin]

You know it, sinkspur. How many bishops have had a Nantucket dream that they wished to fulfill with some 20 year old hunk? That letter reads like a steamy soap opera. Evidently, there was a triangle developing. Poor old Rembert just couldn't keep up.

I'm glad the faggot saved his love letter from the Archbishop. Rembert deserves all the ridicule this will stir up.

[Palladin]

LOL! Mom probably also told him never to bend over to pick up the soap in the shower at the seminary!

[the crow]

Blechh. FWIW another Milwaukee area priest is freshly implicated in improprieties. What a bunch of jerk offs [no pun intended]:

WISN Channel 12

MILWAUKEE -- Nine felony child abuse charges have been filed against a former West Allis priest.

The Rev. Sigfried Widera, 61, was associate pastor of St. Mary Help of Children's Church in West Allis during the early 1970s.

According to the criminal complaint obtained by WISN 12 News, a 42-year-old man recently told police that Widera fondled him when he was in fifth grade.

Another man claimed that Widera did the same at the St. Mary's rectory when the alleged victim was 10 years old.

Widera lives in Arizona now. He left Wisconsin in 1976.

Because he moved, the statute of limitations does not apply in this case.

Widera was convicted of sexual perversion against a child in Port Washington, Wis., in 1973.

If he is convicted of all nine charges, Widera faces 90 years in prison.

Widera is already facing a California civil lawsuit that alleges sexual abuse of children, conspiracy, fraud and negligence. It seeks unspecified damages.

The California suit said the Milwaukee archdiocese and the Orange County diocese covered up molestations and continued to regard the Widera "as a Catholic priest who could be trusted with minor parishioners and minor students."

[Vince Ferrer]

Why oh why couldn't this have blown up before he "renovated" his church? He might have been forced to retire. I wonder if some of the "renovation" money disappeared, to be used for blackmail money.

[CatoRenasci]

Truly nauseating - both the blackmailing boyfriend and the faggot archbishop. Weakland needs to resign, he cannot have any further credibility, and retire to a monastery where the monks can meet his needs. Yuk.

[Roy Tucker]

Good, one of the most nauseatingly liberal archbishops bites the dust. I am praying this was the "cardinal" O'Reilly said was going to be outed...or is there another shoe to drop?

[fatima]

Hi Rem,nice to read your sick loser letters before my beautiful 16 year old daughter does..Rum,we do not want you and how in heck did you get where you are and please get the hell out NOW.Rom,your loser boyfriend went on national tv today to say that you kissed him pulled downed his pants and took over him and all he wanted to do is talk about his vocation in life,You paid him 450.000.00 because he said you did not say you were sorry,say you are sorry and give us our money back,I know you are sorry Ram and more than you so are we,please send us back our money.We all make mistakes and have to pay'Do you know you and your loser friend went on national TV this moring,throw up city,why should I care ,I gave you the money through the collections .Give it back .Get out of Our Lord's House get the Hxxx out now loser.Now tonight.

[Palladin]

Heh. The headline should have read: "Milwaukee Catholics Cough Up Half A Mil to Pay Off Rembert's Honey".

[Palladin]

I am praying that, too. I can't take much more. I wouldn't knowingly join a club or a corporation or even a bowling league run by homos, and here I find myself in a church that is saturated with them. I am so disgusted!

[pgkdan]

Disgusting!!!!! What a pathetic, queer cry baby. I only wish this had come out before he ruined the cathedral.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Gay blackmail of churchmen will be phase two of this scandal.

Hasn't the blackmail and the coverup been going on for years? Isn't that the whole point? Now it's being exposed.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The Rev. Sigfried Widera, 61, was associate pastor of St. Mary Help of Children's Church in West Allis during the early 1970s.

Highlighting here. The irony is killing me. Widera apparently "helped" a lot of children all right!

[xJones]

I also find it hard to believe - and I refuse to do so but I wouldn't write this if a doubt did not gnaw within me - that this money aspect was so vital to our friendship.

Doh! Face it, Weakland sweetie, you got taken by a better con than you.

That Paul's a real piece of work. He was paid $450,000 to shut up and return all correspondence. He's now blabbing on TV shows and passed out this letter. No telling how much money he'll turn this gig into. Seems like Remi could sue him for stomping all over their agreement, but the court case would be hell to go through. Oh well, Weakland is a false priest and deserves this outting. But the parishoners of his diocese that unknowingly tithed to pay for that blackmail must be sickened.

One of my traumatic memories during high school days was getting caught writing in my diary during study-hall rather than working and having the diary confiscated and read - I felt sure - by all the prefects.

If he thought having his diary confiscated and read in high school was traumatic, how's he handling the nation-wide exposure of this horrible letter?

[Savage Beast]

LOL! He should have listened to Mom.

[sockmonkey]

Oh, vomit..BTW, a search for Christodrama on google shows that Rembert's sweetie Paul did get his enterprise off the ground. You can even buy a video..

I wonder if XXX videos played a part in Rembert's coughing up almost half a mil. I wouldn't be surprised.

These people are beyond contempt, and the idea that blackmailers and perverts are providing "tools for conversion"..well, I just want to vomit, and I'd also like to whack Weakland up aside the head..of course I wanted to do that when he destroyed the Cathedral..

[fatima]

Give us back our money,you lost your boyfriend,live up to your word in your letter rom,give it back and now before you retire,give it back.We all saw your loser friend on TV,how many good catholics did you turn away Go to HeXX but before you go,give us back our money. Loser,you do n ot read this but many do loser and this is for the rest of the world ,

[don-o]

btt

I wish no ill to RC Christians.

But, this is not pretty.