Archbishop Weakland. I would say that my role and my legacy has been to keep the Catholic church very much alive within the bigger. There's a tendency in the Catholic Church now toward an isolationism. And that's part of the. And I've avoided all of that. I've taken the risk myself, and I've kept the community aware. Catholics are here to stay. Not an aristocracy of power. Its members are to be. They represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Just as the media had succeeded in framing the sexual crisis. Church ever since the close of the Second Vatican Council by falsely defining it as the. The Unanswered Question behind the Rembert Weakland Scandal: Was the Implementation of Vatican II a Homosexual Fantasy? Someone asks us almost every day: Can you recommend a stylish, well-located—and inexpensive—place to stay in Paris?So we polled the most fashionable Francophiles we know, to find out their secret hideaways. Eight 'Angels', 39 models, two bras worth $4 million and singer Taylor Swift took centre stage at Earls Court as the Victoria's Secret show rolled into the capital. Cosmic ordering is a magic formula that uses the law of attraction to make things happen. This process allows one to follow a well laid structured system that they can utilize to tap into the power of the universe and get. Weakland, ordinary of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. That, of course. is precisely what he did not admit, at least not in the first few days of the scandal, but the conclusion, given the. Paul Marcoux, the man who received the archdiocesan settlement in 1. If he were simply interested in having the truth come out or saving the archdiocese money, Archbishop Weakland. In fact. the case probably never would have gone to trial. But if it had, the archbishop, in order to defend himself, would have. Weakland to settle out of court with archdiocesan money. It was blackmail, pure and. Weakland, by forking out $4. Weakland admitted issue. He also admitted that his earlier claim, that the. By the time his initial reaction unravelled under the pressure of public. Less than a month before the nation's bishops were scheduled to meet.
Dallas to deal with the . Rembert Weakland. The Weakland scandal made news just as the mainstream national media were putting. On virtually the same day that the. Weakland story broke, Amanda Ripley was writing in Time magazine that . Ripley's attack was most probably motivated by a sermon by Msgr. Agnes Parish in New York. City. Clark, according to a story that was reported in the New York Daily News, claimed that the church's real. The media, which had feared all along that the Church was. Ripley, obviously before the. Weakland scandal broke. The Weakland scandal put people like Ms. Here was a bona fide scandal, another club with which to. Church, but it was unfortunately the wrong club. In order to attack the Church by way of Weakland, the. Since. they obviously couldn't do that, their next move should have been to rush to Weakland's defense for engaging in their. As a result, the national media chose to. The news items simply remained news items; they did not get spun into agonized. Andrew Sullivan, Maureen Dowd, etc. This option, of course, was not available to the pundits in Milwaukee. They had to deal with the story, and since. Tom Heinen of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had been overwhelmingly supportive of Weakland as a. Vatican whenever he had the chance, they had to come to grips with. Weakland was referring to as his . Ever since the. sympathetic profile of Weakland appeared in the New Yorker in 1. Milwaukee had been the. The New York Times dubbed Weakland . Now the revelations of Weakland's secret life made his idealism sound like special pleading. It turns out his. The same could be said of. The man who had been caught in the snares of sexual deviance would naturally not look with. They were bringing up the same sexual. No wonder he criticized them. Feminism, like gay rights, was another politically organized rationalization of. By promoting feminism, Weakland was subverting the same moral standards he had subverted. No wonder the feminists loved him; no wonder the feeling was mutual. They. were both engaged in the same campaign of subversion. But as I said, the media who had to cover the story were not rushing to see how homosexuality could become the. Rosetta Stone which would explicate Weakland's legacy, because for the most part, his legacy was their legacy too. He was willing and eager to represent the . Now that his career had gone down in flames, they seemed reluctant to poke around too. They were, as I said, in a bind. They couldn't praise him for being a. The simple facts of the case put the issue of homosexuality right in the middle of public view after so much. Ripley was telling anyone who cared to. On the one hand, they were being urged to adopt an attitude of zero. Andrew Sullivan and other media designated Catholics. Of course, the. fact that Sullivan is a homosexual means, of course, that there will be no zero tolerance of homosexuality. So the. bishops were being urged to tolerate homosexual activity when priests engaged in it with young men over the age of. The first thing that needs to be said about zero tolerance is that it is flagrant in its disregard of Scripture, according to. Jesus urges his followers to forgive not just seven times but seven times seventy times, which is to say as long. The Vatican was quick on picking up the flaws in the unrealistic legalism the lay at the. Writing in the May issue of Civilta Cattolica, Rev. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S. J. Ghirlanda went so far to say that a. The existence of the confessional is a. The real issue is why people with these tendencies were not rooted out. Church life since the close of the Vatican Council, almost 4. In order to understand the strategic significance of zero tolerance and why the designated Catholic pundits are. Church, namely the delinking of sexual scandal with homosexuality. In addition to Amanda Ripley writing in Time. The two strategies- -so contradictory at first glance- -make sense when taken together, as a strategy for weakening. Church. According to its concerned Catholic friends- -people like Andrew Sullivan and Anna Quindlen and. Maureen Dowd and the rest of the scribes who receive a paycheck from institutions interested in weakening the. Catholic Church- -the bishops should simultaneously foster the homosexual clergy who happen to have sex with. Implementation of this policy would result in the decimation of the Catholic clergy in this country. It. would mean deliberately promoting behavior that would result in removing the priests who engaged in it. The. promoters of this policy say there is no connection between pedophilia and homosexuality, but what is the objective. As it stands now, the distinction between praiseworthy behavior and heinous behavior is a. Suppose the same culture which is promoting this solution suddenly. The determination of the crime, in other words, lies wholly in the hands. There is no objective moral law here, just the politically motivated whim of. And that whim, supercharged with moral indignation, is now supposed to become. It doesn't take a genius to see what effect this would have on Catholic clergy. They would be at one and the same. It should not be surprising that the culture of say yes to appetite is proposing. Catholic Church because this is precisely the same moral regimen that American cultural imperialism. MTV is proposing for the entire world. Since the Catholic Church, along with Islam. Church would propose this sort of solution to the. Church's problems. With friends like this, the Church needs no enemies. The cultural mandarins are now proposing. Catholic Church which they have imposed on the nation's universities, the military. That system of control mandates maximal excitation of sexual appetite and. For some indication of how this system of control gets carried out, I recommend a comparison of the. President Clinton and the Rev. The lesson to be derived here is that there is no objective criterion for behavior according to the mandarins. It. just means that the punishment will fit not the crime but rather the political agenda of those doing the punishing. Those who would like some inkling of how this system would work in the Catholic Church need only look to the. Date rape is an example of how the sliding scale of moral enforcement changes according to the. During the '6. 0s and '7. The net result was an increase of sexual activity, which the feminists then stigmatized as. Now the pendulum is swinging once again. As if tacitly. acknowledging that the feminist inspired exploitation of the reaction to sexual liberation has created more problems. Harvard recently abandoned its investigative norms for date rape, according to which the woman. Now the more traditional legal rules of evidence have been reinstated. The bishops allowed the sexualization of their. Now the people. who acted on that incitation of appetite are being punished- -selectively, of course- -because selective punishment is. The media mandarins are now urging the nation's. The bishops are being urged to be simultaneously lenient and. Church and because its purely arbitrary nature would further demoralize the nation's Catholic clergy. Implementing. this policy would be a tacit admission that here is no such thing as objectively evil moral actions. It will mean that. The combination of zero tolerance and the. The people who are urging. Catholic Church ignore the fact that the Church is in such peril right now largely. American culture. In order to propose a solution to the scandal, the bishops have to get to the heart of the matter. The real issue is certainly not pedophilia; it is not even homosexuality. Ripley- -be no. connection between pedophilia and homosexuality, but the Weakland case has nothing to do with pedophilia. In order to see why the pundits of the culture of control through appetite are promoting. Catholic clergy, one need only view the devastation that Rembert Weakland has visited. Milwaukee during his tenure there. Homosexuals, as I have said elsewhere (see my piece on. Sir Anthony Blunt in Degenerate Moderns) are by nature of both their orientation and actions subversives. The. preliminary issue is homosexuality- -both in action and orientation; the preliminary issue is also repentance, of sin in. But the major and overriding issue the bishops need to address is the sexualization. Church, something which has followed unconsciously on the heels of the general sexualization of the culture at. In order to propose solutions, the bishops have to have a clear understanding of the problem, and, as if moved.
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