NCR excerpt of Archbishop Weakland's book

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I had received a free copy of the National Catholic Reporter not too long ago. I was immediately drawn to the excerpt of the book written by Archbishop Weakland, retired Archbishop of Milwaukee.

I read the excerpt and now find myself thinking, is it any wonder that the church is so beset with problems these days if this was the attitude of the Vatican.

I agreed and he arranged for me to go directly down the hall to a small, dark waiting room where Rigali received me. He did most of the talking, confident he was well informed about the situation in the States and in Milwaukee in particular. His advice for me was unequivocal and could be summed up briefly as follows: I should seek to follow clearly in all matters the Holy Father’s mind as seen through the documents of the curia and conform myself to them for the sake of unity in the church’s teaching body, or magisterium; I should demonstrate absolute loyalty to the Holy See and inculcate such loyalty in my people; I should become a paragon of doctrinal orthodoxy in my teaching and writings, relying principally on the teachings of the pope and the curia. In this way my diocese and the church in the United States would be unified and strong.

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1. I got the free sample and read that article too.

His book looks like it's worth getting for that persoective alone.

Archbishop Wekland, though, is a complex, stricken man.