The witch hunt against Archbishop Weakland

Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro at Salon, May 25, 2002

Weakland, who had already submitted to a planned mandatory retirement, decided to step aside and apologize -- not for his relationship with Marcoux, but for eventually settling his personal affairs at the expense of the archdiocese. ... the public reality is that Archbishop Weakland was blackmailed, and ultimately punished, for being gay.