Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Former Catholic head of Milwaukee admits he's gay

By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer
Tue May 12, 2009

NEW YORK – A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man describes his struggles with being gay in an upcoming memoir about his decades serving the church.

Archbishop Rembert Weakland, former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, said in an interview Monday that he wrote about his sexual orientation because he wanted to be candid about "how this came to life in my own self, how I suppressed it, how it resurrected again."

Called "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop," the book is set to be released in June. the rest

1 Comments:

At 11:50 AM, Anonymous Floridian said...

There is no room allowed in Scripture for a person to claim exemption or deny responsibility for any behaviors forbidden by God. The same moral law and Commandments apply to all.

The terms, GBLT and'sexual identity' 'orientation' were devised to claim to be special people and excuse themselves from the Word of God.

II Corinthians 6:9-11 and Romans 1:18-32 include all humanity - as does Hebrews 7:25

 

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