Posted by
Maudie in Mandeville on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:36:25 AM
Liberalism is not Catholic. Not Vatican II, not the gay agenda, not homosexual marriage, not pro-abortion, not pedophilia, not feminism, not ordaining female priests, not altar girls, not communion in hand, not removal of the communion rail, not the Novus Ordo; and "working for social justice and global warming" in their stead doesn't earn brownie points with God.
NEW YORK – A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man...
He was a hero for liberal Catholics nationwide because of his work on social justice and other issues,...
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.
Weakland, a
Benedictine monk, served in Rome as leader of the International Benedictine Confederation and also worked on a liturgy commission for the
Second Vatican Council, which made reforms in the 1960s meant to modernize the church. [
And a modern church it has become!]
Weakland said Christians needed to speak more openly about gays in the priesthood without the "hysteria".
[Don't be 'hysterical when condemning homosexual pedophilia]
He said he was not bitter about how the scandal had eclipsed his decades of work in the church.
"I refused to let myself become a victim and refused to let myself become angry," he said. [This from the perpetrator himself]
Along with Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, Archbishop Weakland has led the push for a far more distinctively "American Church", as independent as possible from Rome. Associated with this 'push' have been Weakland's highly controversial policies and views on abortion, homosexuality, AIDS education, sex education, clerical pedophilia and feminism.
Archbishop Weakland calls himself a feminist and as well as approving inclusive language and altar girls - still forbidden by the Holy See - in his churches, he favours (Brisbane Courier Mail, August 1, 1991) the ordination of women as a solution to the priest shortage worldwide and leading to a "more intelligent and compassionate Church".