"Well, the irony was too much to resist."
And let's remember, Weakland paid close to 1/2 million in "hush money" to a former lover, and was ALLOWED to quietly retire, after JPII first refused his resignation. Thanks for the post! :)
God takes obedience seriously. We have had to suffer both of these rebellious sorry excuses for prelates because Eve just couldn't shut out the serpent's arguments and could not lay off the fruit of that tree and Adam had to go along and get along with Eve.
Your screenname is new (6/8/04). What names have you used here previously or simultaneously? Ninenot and I have been beating up on AmChurch generally and Weakland, in particular, here.
Just in case you are actually innocent of adherence to SSPX and its ecclesiastical crimes, the argument tends to be between those actual Catholics who are in communion with the Holy See, revile AmChurch pseudo-Catholicism, would like the malefactor perverted pedophile clerics burned at the stake en masse, and are angry as warranted with depredations by pervert pseudoCatholic clerics and antiCatholic groupies like SSPX wherever they may be found and, on the other hand, a tiny less than a few who defend those AmChurchian types and their counterparts in various world locales and the equally repulsive pseudo-"traditionalists" of the SSPX schism and its excommunicated leaders, dead or alive, who are self-appointed and self-annointed judges of the pope instead of submitting to him in obedience.
Is the pope Catholic?
Do you accept his authority and submit to him in obedience as Vicar of Christ on Earth.
If the answer to either of those questions is no, why are we talking? In that case, you would have nothing to say that is worth hearing by actual Catholics in communion with the Holy See. You are entering very old arguments here as is your right. No one has the obligation to shield you from the Truth, however.
If you are dissatisfied with Catholicism and the institutional Church, there are thousands of other Christian denominations where you may go and other places as well. In which case, buh-bye!