PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By Richard Gazarik
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who fell from grace in the Roman Catholic Church amid a sex and financial scandal, had hoped to return to St. Vincent Archabbey on Sept. 1 to live out his final days.
But the archabbey has withdrawn its invitation to the elderly cleric, he said.
Weakland, 87, said Archabbot Douglas Nowicki broke the news during a phone call last month, despite his ties to the Benedictine monastery for more than seven decades.
“He asked me to postpone indefinitely my coming,” Weakland told the Tribune-Review in a phone interview. “You don’t want to interfere in the house, so I’m going to stay here. I did want to spend my final days there.”
Kim Metzgar, director of public relations at the archabbey in Westmoreland County, declined to comment.
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