The money, incidentally, came from archdiocesan funds. That won’t come as a big surprise to most NOR readers, or to anyone else who might remember that Weakland stepped down as Archbishop of Milwaukee soon after Paul Marcoux, a former Marquette University theology student, revealed in May 2002 that he was paid $450,000 to settle a sexual-assault claim he made against the Archbishop more than two decades earlier. Even before the June release of his memoir, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop (Eerdmans), Weakland was busy working his PR machine, announcing through The New York Times and the Associated Press that he’s a bona fide homosexual. The former leader of the Milwaukee archdiocese has decided he wants the last word: “I refused to let myself become a victim and refused to let myself become angry,” he told the Associated Press (May 11) in regard to his disgraceful exit in 2002. Weakland has thrust himself back into the public eye, seven years after being disgraced by a two-fold scandal involving “hush money” and alleged homosexual date rape. He couldn’t bear being out of the limelight for these seven years.
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