He's dead.
And when he was alive it was the civil authorities who declined to prosecute. Weakland was his bishop so it's no surprise that there was mess.
So the dead guy got away with it. He was no longer a legitimate priest when he died and should not have been buried as one. Can’t change that now- but can’t continue to excuse the reasoning that allowed it either, can we?
The thinking- the knee-jerk defense- of such sickos in the Church has gotten us to this point. Instead of protecting the Church and its credibility, they care more about protecting each other- and the Church sickens.
If the Vatican loves the diseased priests more than the Church, it is self-destructing.
Bring it ALL out in the open- the guilty and those who protected and excused them. Let them shrivel in the light of truth instead of cloaking themselves in false honor and respectability. I will not take sacraments from hypocritical pedophiles or those who have excused and protected them. No one should.