Former Catholic archbishop of Milwaukee comes out

[WillParkinson]

Source: Associated Press

Former Catholic archbishop of Milwaukee comes out
By The Associated Press
05.12.2009 8:39am EDT

(New York City) A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man describes his struggles with being gay in an upcoming memoir about his decades serving the church.

Archbishop Rembert Weakland, former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, said in an interview Monday that he wrote about his sexual orientation because he wanted to be candid about “how this came to life in my own self, how I suppressed it, how it resurrected again.”

Called “A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop,” the book is set to be released in June.

“I was very careful and concerned that the book not become a Jerry Springer, to satisfy people’s prurient curiosity or anything of this sort,” Weakland told The Associated Press. “At the same time, I tried to be as honest as I can.”

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[Zenlitened]

1. Closets kill. Secrets and lies turn toxic over time.

What a hell of a lot of damage has been done by the religionists and their manic phobias about sex and sexuality.

:cry:

[Baby Snooks]

2. Unbelievable...

"Weakland also writes about his failures to stop sexually abusive priests. In a videotaped deposition released last November, Weakland admitted returning guilty priests to active ministry without alerting parishioners or police."

That right there is enough to know that this man had no place in a position of authority in any church. Hero? He's a zero.

[No Elephants]

3. He sexually assaulted someone and enabled pedophiles, and he headline is that he's gay? Are

you kidding me?

And, he's frickin 82. I hate it that they get to live their whole lives with no consequences.

He resigned the priesthood, but he will get to live in an abbey?

Puke. (Too lazy to open the smilies table and get the emote.)