![]() Tobacco trails: How popes past, present influenced the plant’s journey The Vatican immediately accepted his resignation which was already in the pipeline because he had reached the age of 75 years when bishops are required to tender their resignation. The prologue to A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church gives a dramatic account of these revelations in 2002 in “a blaze of TV cameras” and a remarkably courageous penitential rite that Weakland himself organised at Milwaukee’s cathedral, during which he begged forgiveness from his flock. It was alleged that he had blocked the artistic career of the man with whom he had the relationship. ![]() This ended on a sad note when it became public knowledge that he had had an adult homosexual relationship years earlier, which culminated in demands for money, a confidentiality agreement and the use of diocesan funds to prevent a public trial. Elected archabbot of a major Benedictine monastery at the age of 36, abbot primate of the whole Benedictine order at 40 and appointed archbishop of Milwaukee at 50, Weakland had a distinguished but controversial career. ![]() 2009.Īrchbishop Rembert Weakland OSB is one of the best-known Catholic leaders in the United States. ![]() A PILGRIM IN A PILGRIM CHURCH: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop, by Rembert G Weakland OSB. ![]()
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