Former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland in Memoir: I’m Gay

Via Publishers Weekly: "When Weakland resigned as Milwaukee archbishop in 2002 after
revelations of a past homosexual relationship and a confidential
payout, it was seen as another stunning episode in the unfolding clergy
abuse scandal. It was especially painful to liberal Catholics who
viewed Weakland as their champion. Weakland was publicly penitent, but
other events that year—chief among them the resignation of Cardinal
Bernard Law in Boston—made Weakland's drama a footnote. With this frank
and well-told memoir, that's no longer the case. A Benedictine monk,
Weakland is up front about his homosexuality in a church that preferred
to ignore gays, and about his failures in overseeing pedophile priests.
But this is really the poignant journey of a soul, not a mea culpa
about sex, with chapters on his hardscrabble boyhood and fascinating,
and sometimes sobering, insights into the life of a bishop and the
tensions between the American Catholic Church and the Vatican. At
points the narrative has more than enough detail on the life of a
globe-trotting abbot. But overall this is an invaluable historical
record and a moving personal confession."