
Former Milwaukee Archbishop Weakland Dies at Age 95
The Benedictine monk had served as archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002 and resigned from the post amid sexual abuse scandal.
The Benedictine monk had served as archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002 and resigned from the post amid sexual abuse scandal.
In appointing him to a parish, Bishop William Callahan of La Crosse, Wisconsin, disclosed little about the priest’s alleged use of the Grindr ‘hook-up’ app, what treatment he might have received or what safeguards have been put into place.
The disgraced Scottish archbishop Cardinal O’Brien stepped down in March 2013, at the age of 74, amid media claims of inappropriate sexual behavior with other men.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien resigned in 2013 after admitting he made inappropriate sexual advances to priests in the 1980s.
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