Achbp Weakland Comments on New Papacy

[HagiaSophia]

Comments about the new papacy from retired Archbisohp Rembert Weakland:

“…The new Pope will also have to pastor a group that accepts Vatican Council II, but sees it as changing nothing, just as an expression of continuity with the past. They will say that it was not intended to be a dogmatic council but a pastoral one, almost implying that thus it can be rejected at will…”

“…Then there are those who accept Vatican Council II, willingly admit that there is continuity with the tradition of the past, but see that tradition as embracing the whole history of the Church from biblical times to today and not just of the immediate past. …”"

“…o be complete one would also have to add the group that wants to go beyond Vatican Council II, seeing it as already passé, in an attempt to deal with other burning issues like celibacy, married clergy, the role of women, and the like…”

"…Two issues underlie all these divisions I just enumerated. Sometimes the first could be called a crisis of faith. I prefer to see it as a crisis of authority, although the two are intrinsically joined because we are talking here about the authority of the Church as localized in the authority of the pope. Pope Paul was the first to realize this crisis after the reception (perhaps one should say “non-reception”) of “Humanae vitae” in 1967. It was the last encyclical he wrote. For the next ten years of his pontificate he gave less weighty titles to his documents, calling them apostolic letters, apostolic admonitions, and the like. I often wonder how he felt when even conferences of bishops wrote documents that attempted to interpret and soften his own…

"…How Pope Benedict answers this question of the place of the Church in modern culture will affect the lives of all Catholics as they take their places in society. The Catholic tradition is not the Amish solution of total isolation. But if not that solution, then how much compromise will be permitted the individual Catholics and the Church itself? "

“Pope Benedict XVI before his election tended in this regard to be rather uncompromising. If so, what pastoral advice will he be giving us all now as pope?”

archbishopweakland.com/reflect_051705.html

 

[QuoVadis]

May God have mercy on his soul.

 

[Wolseley]

Weakland is a man who, as you may recall, retired in disgrace in 2002 after it was revealed that he paid $450,000.00 in hush money to Paul Macoux—his homosexual lover—so that Macoux would keep his mouth shut.

Which is precisely what Weakland should do—keep his mouth shut.

Why on earth would any orthodox Catholic anywhere have the slightest interest in what this man has to say?

 

[HagiaSophia]

Wolseley:

Weakland is a man who, as you may recall, retired in disgrace in 2002 after it was revealed that he paid $450,000.00 in hush money to Paul Macoux—his homosexual lover—so that Macoux would keep his mouth shut.

Which is precisely what Weakland should do—keep his mouth shut.

Why on earth would any orthodox Catholic anywhere have the slightest interest in what this man has to say?

I can forgive the lapse, and the sinner who repents but this bishop made the statement --“well I’ve earned such and so on my speaking engagements which I’ve turned over to the Church so I really didn’t cost much” — talk about arrogance. This is also the bishop who had an image of himself and the rector put on the statue of the BVM when they “redid” the Cathedral…and on the webpage for a long while was a bronze sculpture he had done of himself with the notation “done for the diocese of Milwaukee” – I mean - how do I love me, let me count the ways.

A de Medici he ain’t.