Clergy Abuse Q & A

But how could Archbishop Weakland knowingly move these perpetrators and allow them to be reassigned to a new parish?

That's on page 7

In this document, [in which then-]Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan answers frequently asked questions about the clergy sexual abuse scandal.

I might have supplemented the question this way. Why shouldn't we conclude that the reason was he actually believed what he tried to later explain away as a slip of the tongue? I refer to Lapsus linguae and lapsus mentis corrected, Herald of Hope column, by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., Milwaukee Catholic Herald, May 23, 2002, where he wrote,

During the first discussions on pedophilia some 12 to 15 years ago I made some more serious and infelicitous remarks. I wrote in one of these articles about some teens who were very street-wise and sexually very active. I may have given the impression that some teen-age victims of sexual abuse by a priest were somehow responsible. ...

Again I talked in some interviews about teens being rejected and then "squealing."

Reassigning those priests was more consistent with Archbishop Weakland then viewing them as the real victims than the various hypotheses about his actions now offered by Archbishop Dolan in this Q&A.