Squealing? Squealing?

[arisbe]

"In a 1994 interview with a Milwaukee Journal reporter, Weakland discussed his belief that true pedophilia among priests was rare. Instead, most of the priests who had trouble were attracted to teenage boys, he said -- relationships he referred to as ‘affairs.’ ‘What happens so often in those cases is that they go on for a few years and then the boy gets a little older and the perpetrator loses interest,’ Weakland told a reporter. ‘Then is when the squealing comes in....’"

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Re: weakland

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Who had to pay up a pretty penny of what he said was not church money. (More than you are getting for your house, I seem to recall.)

Now he has published something in Commonweal, calling forth the somewhat indignant response in the New Oxford Review I linked to.

I was not pleased when some folks took such pleasure in the scandal because he had been the chief architect of the new Mass, but I must admit that he is not in a very good position at present to denounce the heirarchy.