I agree that this is the fault of Cousins and Weakland, but can anybody tell me why Weakland himself hasn’t been defrocked by the Vatican? He is an open homosexual who has declared publicly that the Church is wrong about homosexual behavior.
WEAKLAND QUOTE: “If you say our God is an all-loving god, how do you explain that at any given time probably 400 million living on the planet would be gay? Are the
religions of the world, as does Catholicism, saying to
those hundreds of millions of people, you have to pass your whole life without any physical, genital expression of that love?”
I know that it is extremely difficult for the Vatican to be on top of everybody, but if they do get wind of a Bishop saying things like this they definitely should do something about it!
Weakland was removed.
Sadly, I think that Weakland wasn’t disciplined (other than being forced to retire early) because of the fact that he has lots of friends in high places (liberal American bishops and cardinals) and perhaps because of misguided kindness. Weakland - well, actually, wealthy donors who were friends of his - paid back the money he stole for his boyfriend and was supposed to go live in retirement at a monastery.
This initially failed because the monastery in question didn’t want him. They finally found some other place for him, and unfortunately, proving that no good deed goes unpunished, he has devoted his new leisure hours to attacking the Pope and orthodox Catholicism in whatever way he can.
I wish that the head of his order would at least silence him, but some of the Benedictines are pretty bad and are probably on his side.