Racked with gilt

Watching for signs in The Times of more on Archbishop Weakland's memoirs, I might have found one from 1996 that touches on his "spiritual growth".

why is he returning to Columbia University to resume work on an unfinished doctoral dissertation in music?

"I'm mostly Irish, and I'm full of guilt," he said recently at his residence in Milwaukee, the Brothers House on the campus of St. Francis Seminary near Lake Michigan. "Columbia University gave me $3,000 in 1956 to do the research on Ambrosian chant. ..."

He couldn't just "move on" even after 40 years, not with $3,000 of other people's money at stake. Poignant, in a way.

[Milwaukee Prelate Reaches the Top And Keeps Reaching
by James R. Oestreich, The New York Times, January 4, 1996]

See Archbishop Weakland Memoirs to be Released