Weakland

Weakland's memoirs should be burned.

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The Archbishop writes that he knew the sexual abuse of minors and children was morally wrong, but "we" didn't know it was a crime. Huh? What? And "we" believed children would just grow up forgetting about it. His tell all book is as much of a scandal as the scandal itself. These statements betray his hardness of heart, as well as a callous disregard for the dignity of persons. Only a completely self-absorbed, narcissistic, sexual deviant could be capable of believing or even acknowledging such falsehoods. It would have been better if this guy had never been ordained...

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Stupid is as stupid does.

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"In the early years of the sex abuse scandal in Milwaukee, retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland says in his soon-to-be released memoir, he did not comprehend the potential harm to victims or understand that what the priests had done constituted a crime.

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"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature," Weakland says in the book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church," due out in June.

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Weakland said he initially "accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would 'grow out of it.'" - Source

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Now that is a hate crime.