Weakland, Sklba to testify in bankruptcy proceedings

Weakland needs to be sent directly to prison for the remainder of his life. He knowingly fostered the development of a culture of abuse and overlooked the sexual abuse of children in his diocese for years. This bottom feeder personifies the dregs of the episcopacy. He serves as a poster child for the category of evil persons who should never have spiritual or other authority over anyone.

Margaret Joughin, Catholic Melbourne journalist and less than appreciated executive member of Brokenrites in the nineties, was right on Weaklands tail back then, especially when invited to the Archdiocese by Archbishop Little.
What a loss for that group, she always called a spade a spade and not so surprising, many clergy could be counted as amongst her confrere's.
She certainly sorted the wheat from the chaff.

The church could avoid all this madness if it would get over its hang-ups about sexual orientation and unnatural celibacy/chastity. Weakland was a very normal homosexual, no pedophile. If the church respected nature, including sex and sexual orientation, and put an end to its mad requirement of celibacy for clergy, good men like Rembert Weakland could have done an even grander job of leading other followers of Jesus. Seminaries would not be considered last resorts for guys who are messed up by our society about their homosexuality and figure God must have pre-ordained them for some sort of celibate life because they aren't oriented toward sex with the opposite gender. These are the guys who go into seminaries and on to ordination--and sexual abuse. It is the sin and crime of society and it is the sin and crime of the church long before it ever becomes the psychological screw-up and sin and crime of any sexually immature celibate. Bertram Weakland was no "pervert," not at all "sick." He was not a pedophile. He was a superb follower of Jesus who also wanted to satisfy his "god-given" and "society-given" direction for sexual expression in love. All that followed, including his former lover's sick and evil abuse of sick and evil conditions to threaten Weakland with exposure for filthy money are the sins and crimes of society and the church.

Rembert Weakland himself, though homosexual, did not appear to ever have participated in pedophilia or ephobophilia, but to any degree that he followed the Vatican-dictated line requiring bishops to attend only to canon law and ignore the civil code of all the jurisdictions, yes, then he participated in the sinful and criminal cover-up of sex abuse of young people. He is guilty of that, and to any degree that can be proven, he should be required to pay the penalties--and I'm not referring to using the money of the people in the pews to pay any monetary awards to those who were abused. But a distinction must be understood and kept clearly in mind of the difference between homosexual acts committed between consenting adults and the sex abuse that is devouring the Catholic Church. If the Vatican were healthy enough and honest enough to recognize the natural condition of homosexuality for those of that persuasion instead of labeling it so ignorantly as an "intrinsic disorder," and if the Vatican were literate and honest and wise enough to extend ordination to married people and women, there would not be the current shortage of priests. And if the Vatican admitted the facts of history, science, sociology, and psychology about homosexuals and included them openly in the priesthood, it wouldn't be suffering this current suicide as the result of ignoring reality and maintaining its priesthood as a haven for disturbed, closeted homosexuals. The Catholic Church has suffered for millennia from the consequences of its secrecy. And the only reason for that secrecy is to cover the terrorism it commits, not any terrorism that might be committed against it. Vatican secrecy has been forced on bishops around the world for longer than anyone can remember. Readiness to submit to that secrecy, even in the instances of sin and crime, is a condition of being appointed and kept a bishop. We've seen how Benedict has readily fired bishops who do not tow his line. It's the closeting, the hiding, the secrecy about the homosexuality that has for so long been so prevalent in the Catholic priesthood and caused more problems than could ever be counted. That attitude has been the attraction of disturbed homosexuals to the priesthood. "If I can't have sex without sinning, I might as well become a priest." But nature takes over with such disturbed people, and that's what we have been seeing--only recently--in clerical sex abuse. Open the windows, as Good John XXIII tried to do. Let in the fresh air of truth and respect for nature. Put an end to all this secrecy, this hiding from reality. You cannot be healthy spiritually if you are not previously healthy in your knowledge and emotions about everything related to your very existence. Open the windows! Open the doors! Or else the people will continue to open the doors to use them as exits from a dishonest, otherwise sinful, and criminal church.

soon of course the Belleville diocese will also enter bankruptcy proceedings