Posted on 09/30/2009 10:24:49 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
Dolores Leckey, who worked for the US bishops’ conference for two decades and headed the offices of the laity, marriage and family, youth, women, and lay ministry, has written a review lauding disgraced Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland’s recent memoir. “[W]hen I heard the radio report on May 23, 2002, that he had had an affair with a man decades earlier, and that in 1998 there had been a cash settlement of $450,000, two thoughts converged,” she recounted: “one, that he fell in love, probably for the first time, and that falling in love has a way of humanizing us; two, that nobody in church leadership-- bishop, cardinal, whoever-- should have free access to large sums of money.” Ms. Leckey retired from the bishops’ conference in 1997 and is now a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University.
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No one asked for homosexuals or homosexual pedophiles to lie in their applications to seminaries so they can become priests and go fishing for sexual relationships. Those kinds of people need plenty of jail time.
Why publish this trash. It helps no one.
In the days before Vatican II, homosexuality wasn’t even an issue for seminarians. Then afterwards, they were told to be “open to new modes of expression.”
Not surprising that SHE is a FELLOW.
Wonder if she has had addadictomy surgery yet?
Not true. In the past there wasn’t the drive of lawyers to make money off the Church. No sin that can make a lawyer money is left in the shadows these days.
There is some level of this throughout the world, far less in the religious community than in the secular world, but it is there.
Yep, as all of life went forward from about the time of V2 there was a loss of shame in public and somewhat within the Church regarding behavior and how people conducts their lives.
The basic measure used to be that you would behave as if God himself were before you always watching all you do and as if you could see him.
The way it turns out today sadly enough is, out of sight, out of mind.
Incorrect. If your assertion were valid then there would have been no need for the following instruction to have been issued by the Vatican on 2 February 1961.
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?
-- from my post #7
Where is she now? The thought of her having any influence at all on any Catholic body worries me.
It’s a bit worse than she described.
The guy was not “underaged”. But the reason the bishop had to pay out the money was because he raped the guy.
The bishop keeps saying he was “in love” but it sounds more like a one sided sexual obsession.
And my first “thought” when I heard about it was “Thank God. Now we can get rid of another leader of the theological liberals trying to destroy the church”...
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