Bishop Weakland Scoffs at Church Molestation Scandal

Alan Keyes is Making Sense ^ | 4/15/02 | Aquinasfan

[Aquinasfan]

I'm sorry that I can't quote this exactly, but in Alan's "Outrage of the Day" segment, he quoted Bishop Weakland scoffing at the current molestation scandal in the Church. The phrase I remember is something like "the problem begins when the tattling starts."

[Aquinasfan]

Alan's head almost popped off by the time he finished reading the quote, and he said flat out that the Pope has to remove bishops like Weakland.

If someone heard it and can post a better paraphrase, please do. The transcript from the show should be available tomorrow or Wednesday, and I'll post the relevant section then.

[Aquinasfan]

The latest outrage from Bishop Weakland. It's time for him to go.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I thought that this CINO Weakland was up for retirement! I know that during the church renovation controversy last year folks were implying that he was about due to leave. He has just demonstrated that he is WAY overdue to leave.

[Mike Fieschko]

He turned 75 recently, and on April 2, submitted his resignation.

[jimkress]

the Pope has to remove bishops like Weakland.

BS! Bishops (and cardinals, and priests) like Weakland must be arrested and tried for criminal facilitation! They should be put in prison for life for aiding and abeting known, deviant, criminals!

[RDavid]

The Bishop sort of said ..... we (The Church) would not be facing this problem if the kiddies had not "squealed" .... !!!

[history_matters]

Archbishop Weakland is a worker of evil and a servant of the demon.

I for one firmly believe in the death penalty for those who sexually violate children/minors as well as the death penalty for those who enable their evil acts.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

on April 2, submitted his resignation

Thanks be to God!

[Arthur McGowan]

Bishops like Weakland, Bernardin, Mahony, Law, O'Connor, etc., etc., is why, if it ever comes up, and it will, I will always oppose the canonization of JPII. He simply threw the Catholics of America to the wolves for the past 25 years. He brought down Communism, and was powerless against the gay-socialist-contraceptive-homosexual-pro-abortion mafia in the Church in America. Proving which was the more formidable evil.

[thedilg]

IMHO Weakland should have been removed decades ago.

Godspeed, The Dilg

[sinkspur]

Well, Weakland didn't say anything that Law, and Egan, and Eldon Curtiss, and other bishops hadn't already said.

It's an episcopal mindset to blame the victim.

[Bella_Bru]

The phrase I remember is something like "the problem begins when the tattling starts."

What???

[saradippity]

I read the whole episode re Curtiss and I do not agree with you. Good Bishops can make some judgement mistakes. I bet the old biddy who went to the newspaper before she contacted him was Call To Action.Some of my friends went to some group of old dissenters "envisioning" a new church last week-end. After the "tres cute"ex-priest finished telling his little "in" jokes about the Pope's hoped for upcoming demise and a few tributes to cardinal Bernardin the group,settled in and listened to the same old blah-blah about the spirit running through the church and the lack of real progress in implementing the spirit of vatII. The only thing that tickled my friends was that attendees looked like they were over 70.

Ticks us all off that these dissenters can hold there little confabs on church property actually the speakers spoke from the altar,but if we want decent speakers to teach the truth of the Church we have to rent a hall or conference center because the chancery office won't approve of any thing that smacks of orthodoxy.

[Aquinasfan]

but if we want decent speakers to teach the truth of the Church we have to rent a hall or conference center because the chancery office won't approve of any thing that smacks of orthodoxy.

UGH! That's so true! When I started teaching RCIA at our parish our pastor gave me a list of "workshops" that the church would pay for. I stopped at "The Dreamcatcher: A Workshop for....blah, blah, blah." Everything was New Age blather. I wonder if anyone even goes to these things.

Last Spring I traveled about 50 miles to hear Scott Hahn speak at a Church in Salem, MA (of all places) which was packed to the rafters with people paying $10/person to hear him speak.

The leadership really is in sad shape.

[Aquinasfan]

Well, Weakland didn't say anything that Law, and Egan, and Eldon Curtiss, and other bishops hadn't already said.

I guess the difference is he didn't do the "I'm sorry, I'm truly sorry... now what's for dinner?" bit. I got the sense from the quote that he was really blaming the victims.

[aristeides]

The quote appeared in a Washington Post article on Weakland on Sunday, Wis. Archbishop Kept Silent on Predator Priest :

Weakland has also appeared to suggest that the teenagers sometimes share the blame.

"What happens so often in those cases is that they go on for a few years and then the boy gets a little older and the perpetrator loses interest. Then is when the squealing comes in and you have to deal with it," he told the Milwaukee Journal in 1994.

Such comments over the years have startled Milwaukee residents, especially coming from a prelate who gained his liberal reputation by questioning whether priests should be allowed to marry, advocating a greater role for women in the church and holding "listening sessions" on issues such as abortion and birth control. Intellectual in manner, Weakland holds a doctorate in musicology from Columbia University and studied piano at the Juilliard School of Music.

[PGalt]

bump

[sinkspur]

I read the whole episode re Curtiss and I do not agree with you. Good Bishops can make some judgement mistakes.

The "judgment mistake" was reassigning a priest who was under fire for looking at child pornography.

The mistake of arrogance was sending letters to grown Catholic people who criticized Curtiss for his judgment mistake. Curtiss apparently views his "flock" as children whom he is free to dress down for exercising their first amendment rights.

Curtiss is the kind of bishop who would be blaming the victims, which is the very attitude that's gotten us into the mess we're in.

[steve-b]

The phrase I remember is something like "the problem begins when the tattling starts."

Weakland and Clinton: Separated At Birth?

[history_matters]

Curtiss is the kind of bishop who would be blaming the victims, which is the very attitude that's gotten us into the mess we're in.

I couldn't disagree with you more. Archbishop Curtiss has had a huge flowering of vocations and has done many wonderful things for the Church. Those letters he wrote were bad calls, nothing more. Everyone makes mistakes -- much like your generalized condemnation of him.