WEAKLAND....an outrage unto himself
y'know, and just yesterday our priest gave a lovely homily on how we are called to love all these men and leaders in the church who are giving such scandal to everyone lately, despite how much we may be angered by them.
quite honestly, until today, I wasn't particularly ANGRY....just annoyed, tired and confused.
Now I'm hot.
Let's start with our own home grown, rotten tomato: Weakland. Yeah, his book is no longer news. But every day there are more and more disgusting leaks from it. One's dismay grows into annoyance, which grows into outrage. It is simply inevitable after outrage that anger is going to follow. Just is.
Right off the bat he claims to be the first bishop to "voluntarily" come out and admit to being gay. WHAT?! you may not realize it, sir, but we all knew that when your big secret was "outed" for you amidst scandal. What was voluntary about it then? it was so involuntary that you gave ginormous wads of diocesan money to shut your ex lover up. BAH! talk about revisionism.
Then he actually blames the Vatican for taking too long to defrock the perverts and molesters amongst the clergy. NEWSFLASH!!!! why would they defrock someone whom YOU never suspended??? huh? So it's THEIR fault the abusers kept being reassigned and given fresh ground to contaminate with their filth? ARE YOUR FOR REAL???? why would they investigate or do one damned thing to men who were simply reassigned by YOU and told to keep working. Blasted pope....just can't read minds like he's supposed to hey?
After this he treats us to a lamentation over how the church views homosexuality....and how it is dead wrong in regarding it as "objectively disordered". (of course!!...this is, after all, Weakland talking and it was probably too much to hope that he'd have changed his leopard spots yeah? the church is ALWAYS wrong in his book) So he openly whines that it's unfair to expect those who have same sex attraction to never have any "physical, genital" relations. Yeah, that's what he said. Could've just said SEX but I guess that wasn't annoying enough.
So may I answer you dear sir?
YES!! the church expects all of her children to practice chastity: gay, straight, married, single.....priests, monks, bishops. Guess you didn't let those last ones stop you either, eh? Oh I forgot, they're wrong on that too.
Which lead straight into his confessing to having sex with several men once he was bishop. What on earth made you think ANY of us ever needed to know that? Do you ever stop vomiting your issues on us or are we going to be hearing from you forever? This is even worse than those "witnessing" talks where people tell you their past life but do so with too much detail and too little tact. Most have forgotten you really shouldn't reveal your past sins to others unless it can be done
A) without scandal and
B) can explain how you came to your current place of conversion.
WHERE IS THE CONVERSION HERE?? where, pray tell, is even the repentance? I'm just hearing the same self righteous, heretical, agenda pushing diatribe as before! UGH!!
He also makes the claim that the Church was finally on the way to making much needed changes in the 60's and 70's after the Vatican Council but JOHN PAUL II (may be be forever blessed!) squelched it. Well praise God he did! But this was, of course, wrong in Weakland's eyes as he felt that the church became too "centralized" and "doctrinally rigid" under JP II's leadership. (ie - the Church had a "pope" and truth is "unchangeable".) Guess both bother him.
In fact, his poor relations with the Vatican and the Pope over such basic issues of doctrine are the REAL reason, according to him, that he didn't contact Rome when he was first blackmailed. huh? So, let's read between the lines: you knew you were on superthin ice to begin with and you didn't want to rock the boat (lose your office?) by admitting to your latest fiasco? Oh no, he says, he just didn't want to be labeled gay in the "little village of Rome". Oh sure, that's much more believable. You never cared what else you were labeled as....that makes a lot of sense. He also says he was told by a "friend" that Rome would have wanted him to just cover it up. That was "the way she did things". And he uses, as an example, poor dead Bishop Montalvo, who exclaimed upon getting a phone call from Weakland when his past irrefutably blew up on the national news that "surely you're going to deny it!" That's simply the man saying "tell me it's not true!!" he wasn't TELLING him to deny it. But Weakland claims that HE took the higher ground in this and said he could deny the rape but not the fact that he'd had sex with him. HOW KOOKY!!
On and on he goes like that. THE WHOLE WORLD IS TO BLAME FOR ALL HIS MISTAKES AND SINS. But I've yet to read any release of this little tome where HE owns up to his own responsibilities. Let alone culpabilities.
Truly, when the scandal first broke I was hardly a fan of his, having lived the majority of my life listening to embarrassing and shameful dissent from his mouth. BUT I FELT SORRY FOR HIM. And I had sincerely hoped it would serve as a wake up call to amend his life. To take stock of things. Clearly, it hasn't. All that mortification for naught. What a shame!
NOW BEFORE THE USUAL HATE MAIL STARTS where people bash me for "chastising" bishops or priests let me say this. I already GET it. I already know that we should just quietly pray for them. We should take it to Jesus. We should let other bishops/priests "fraternally" correct each other.....yeah yeah yeah.....I know.
This is me loudly crying out for one of them (just ONE of them) to do so already. I think they've all forgotten that we are the victims in these ridiculous matters. We are the ones who are embarrased, scandalized and demoralized. Why? No one, in any position of authority speaks out. And when they do, it's mealymouthed and pointless. Why say anything?
In their "pastoral" concern for those who are scandalizing us, they seem to forget their "pastoral" concern for those BEING scandalized. Is it so hard to stick up for Jesus and the truth once you have a collar or mitre that you instead have to couch a bunch of wasted words in diplomatic gobblety gook....when did you all turn into politicans???
If I'm not supposed to publicly complain then do something yourselves. Stop wondering why your pews are empty! You all look like ineffectual hypocrites. Asleep at the wheel while the wolves prowl your own flock.
Try shepherding your good sheep now and then too hey? and not just the lost and unrepetentant ones.
quite honestly, until today, I wasn't particularly ANGRY....just annoyed, tired and confused.
Now I'm hot.
Let's start with our own home grown, rotten tomato: Weakland. Yeah, his book is no longer news. But every day there are more and more disgusting leaks from it. One's dismay grows into annoyance, which grows into outrage. It is simply inevitable after outrage that anger is going to follow. Just is.
Right off the bat he claims to be the first bishop to "voluntarily" come out and admit to being gay. WHAT?! you may not realize it, sir, but we all knew that when your big secret was "outed" for you amidst scandal. What was voluntary about it then? it was so involuntary that you gave ginormous wads of diocesan money to shut your ex lover up. BAH! talk about revisionism.
Then he actually blames the Vatican for taking too long to defrock the perverts and molesters amongst the clergy. NEWSFLASH!!!! why would they defrock someone whom YOU never suspended??? huh? So it's THEIR fault the abusers kept being reassigned and given fresh ground to contaminate with their filth? ARE YOUR FOR REAL???? why would they investigate or do one damned thing to men who were simply reassigned by YOU and told to keep working. Blasted pope....just can't read minds like he's supposed to hey?
After this he treats us to a lamentation over how the church views homosexuality....and how it is dead wrong in regarding it as "objectively disordered". (of course!!...this is, after all, Weakland talking and it was probably too much to hope that he'd have changed his leopard spots yeah? the church is ALWAYS wrong in his book) So he openly whines that it's unfair to expect those who have same sex attraction to never have any "physical, genital" relations. Yeah, that's what he said. Could've just said SEX but I guess that wasn't annoying enough.
So may I answer you dear sir?
YES!! the church expects all of her children to practice chastity: gay, straight, married, single.....priests, monks, bishops. Guess you didn't let those last ones stop you either, eh? Oh I forgot, they're wrong on that too.
Which lead straight into his confessing to having sex with several men once he was bishop. What on earth made you think ANY of us ever needed to know that? Do you ever stop vomiting your issues on us or are we going to be hearing from you forever? This is even worse than those "witnessing" talks where people tell you their past life but do so with too much detail and too little tact. Most have forgotten you really shouldn't reveal your past sins to others unless it can be done
A) without scandal and
B) can explain how you came to your current place of conversion.
WHERE IS THE CONVERSION HERE?? where, pray tell, is even the repentance? I'm just hearing the same self righteous, heretical, agenda pushing diatribe as before! UGH!!
He also makes the claim that the Church was finally on the way to making much needed changes in the 60's and 70's after the Vatican Council but JOHN PAUL II (may be be forever blessed!) squelched it. Well praise God he did! But this was, of course, wrong in Weakland's eyes as he felt that the church became too "centralized" and "doctrinally rigid" under JP II's leadership. (ie - the Church had a "pope" and truth is "unchangeable".) Guess both bother him.
In fact, his poor relations with the Vatican and the Pope over such basic issues of doctrine are the REAL reason, according to him, that he didn't contact Rome when he was first blackmailed. huh? So, let's read between the lines: you knew you were on superthin ice to begin with and you didn't want to rock the boat (lose your office?) by admitting to your latest fiasco? Oh no, he says, he just didn't want to be labeled gay in the "little village of Rome". Oh sure, that's much more believable. You never cared what else you were labeled as....that makes a lot of sense. He also says he was told by a "friend" that Rome would have wanted him to just cover it up. That was "the way she did things". And he uses, as an example, poor dead Bishop Montalvo, who exclaimed upon getting a phone call from Weakland when his past irrefutably blew up on the national news that "surely you're going to deny it!" That's simply the man saying "tell me it's not true!!" he wasn't TELLING him to deny it. But Weakland claims that HE took the higher ground in this and said he could deny the rape but not the fact that he'd had sex with him. HOW KOOKY!!
On and on he goes like that. THE WHOLE WORLD IS TO BLAME FOR ALL HIS MISTAKES AND SINS. But I've yet to read any release of this little tome where HE owns up to his own responsibilities. Let alone culpabilities.
Truly, when the scandal first broke I was hardly a fan of his, having lived the majority of my life listening to embarrassing and shameful dissent from his mouth. BUT I FELT SORRY FOR HIM. And I had sincerely hoped it would serve as a wake up call to amend his life. To take stock of things. Clearly, it hasn't. All that mortification for naught. What a shame!
NOW BEFORE THE USUAL HATE MAIL STARTS where people bash me for "chastising" bishops or priests let me say this. I already GET it. I already know that we should just quietly pray for them. We should take it to Jesus. We should let other bishops/priests "fraternally" correct each other.....yeah yeah yeah.....I know.
This is me loudly crying out for one of them (just ONE of them) to do so already. I think they've all forgotten that we are the victims in these ridiculous matters. We are the ones who are embarrased, scandalized and demoralized. Why? No one, in any position of authority speaks out. And when they do, it's mealymouthed and pointless. Why say anything?
In their "pastoral" concern for those who are scandalizing us, they seem to forget their "pastoral" concern for those BEING scandalized. Is it so hard to stick up for Jesus and the truth once you have a collar or mitre that you instead have to couch a bunch of wasted words in diplomatic gobblety gook....when did you all turn into politicans???
If I'm not supposed to publicly complain then do something yourselves. Stop wondering why your pews are empty! You all look like ineffectual hypocrites. Asleep at the wheel while the wolves prowl your own flock.
Try shepherding your good sheep now and then too hey? and not just the lost and unrepetentant ones.
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