Posted on 07/03/2014 5:47:14 AM PDT by marshmallow
Retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who had hoped to return to the Benedictine monastery where he began his religious life more than 70 years ago, will not be going after all.
Weakland, 87, had planned to move from Milwaukee to St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., by Sept. 1. But the retired prelate told Milwaukee's Catholic Herald that the archabbot there asked him to postpone those plans indefinitely.
"Personally, I wanted to get back to the monastery and get back to the monastic routine," Weakland said in a story published on the Herald's Web site on Tuesday. "It's always been a part of who I am, but it doesn't seem as if it will work out."
Weakland's impending departure was the subject of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story on Sunday. He was to be the guest of honor at a July 17 farewell luncheon organized by priests — an event that was drawing criticism from clergy sex abuse survivors who see him as complicit in crimes against them.
The Rev. James Connell, former vice chancellor of the archdiocese and now a victim advocate, sent an open letter to Weakland asking him to cancel the luncheon and take other steps to assuage the concerns of survivors.
Repeated attempts to reach Weakland and the abbey over the last 10 days have been unsuccessful. Neither Weakland nor Archabbott Douglas R. Nowicki in Latrobe returned telephone calls seeking comment Monday and Tuesday.
A source told the Journal Sentinel on Monday that the archbishop's plans had changed, but it could not be independently verified. And the reversal appeared to be news to at least some of his supporters.
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...ah, Rembert...may I call you Rembert...? We do so reap that which we sew, do we not...?
He is reaping garments that he has stitched?
Oooh, burn. Actually, by his own admission, Weakland is unfit for the monastic calling . . . unless the ancient and venerable practice of strict enclosure is employed.
Salvation:
One of the leaders of the “spirit of Vatican II” style in the Catholic Bishops of the US, along with the likes of Hunthausen of Seattle, Auxillary Gumbleton of Detroit, Cardinal Mahoney of LA, etc.
Thank God there time has past.
If I reap what I sew then that means I am only going to reap some old, torn fishing equipment I sewed up with fishing line. If, however, I reap what I SOW... then I have a lot coming to me.
He is reaping garments that he has stitched?
...ah, quick wit this morning, I see...or should that be ‘I sew’...
If I reap what I sew then that means I am only going to reap some old, torn fishing equipment I sewed up with fishing line
...there is, or if not there should be, a famous line from the New Testament...’let he who is without typo cast the first stone...’
Parable of the SOWER — sowing seeds......
Parable of the SOWER — sowing seeds......
...really, I got your point the first time...
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