Rembert Weakland

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Rembert George Weakland (born April 2, 1927) is an American Benedictine monk who served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002.

Weakland had a sexual relationship with a male associate many decades ago, but that the diocese had paid $450,000 to Marcoux to resolve litigation arising from the scandal shortly before his mandatory retirement at the age of 75.

Early life

George Samuel Weakland was born in Patton, Pennsylvania, to Basil Weakland (1897-1932) and Mary Kane (1898-1978). Leora, Elizabeth, Barbara, and Marian, as well as one brother, William, were his four sisters. He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Patton and later enrolled in the Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe's minor seminary.

Following his graduation in 1945, Weakland entered the novitiate of the archabbey, adopting the name Rembert. He started to study at Saint Vincent College and Saint Vincent Seminary, which were both run by the archabbey, as he began his monastic life on September 23 of the following year. On September 29, 1949, he began his solemn monk at Solesmes Abbey in France. Theneabbot sent him to study theology at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome.

Weakland was accepted to the priesthood by Bishop Simone Salvi, O.S.B., Abbot of Subiaco Abbey in Italy, on June 24, 1951. He continued his studies in music in Italy, France, and Germany, as well as at both the Juilliard School and Columbia University in New York City. He found the text of a medieval liturgical drama called Play of Daniel, which led to the publication of an authoritative text with commentary during this period. It was used by musical companies such as the New York Pro Musica, which specialize in classical music from the 1970s, that it was often staged. He taught music at St. Vincent College from 1957 to 1963.

On June 26, 1963, Weakland was elected Coadjutor Archabbot of St. Vincent Archabbey. On August 29, 1963, he returned to the office and received the solemn approval of an archabbot from the local bishop, William G. Connare of the Diocese of Greensburg. He became the Chancellor and Chairman of St. Vincent College's Board of Directors following this. He was named Consultor to the Commission for Implementing the Constitution on the Second Vatican Council's Sacred Liturgy on May 8, 1964, and was the first Vatican Council member of the Commission in 1966.

Weakland was elected the Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation on September 29, 1967, a posthumous post in the 1970s. He served as Chancellor ex officio of the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm during this period. He served as a member of the Vatican Council of Superiors General from 1968 to 1977. Weakland presided over an international, inter-religious monastic symposium near Bangkok, Thailand, where the American Trappist monk and writer, Thomas Merton, died. He brought the Last Rites of the Catholic Church of Merton to Merton and ordered for the body to be flown back on a US military plane to the United States.

Pope Paul VI appointed Weakland as the Archbishop of Milwaukee on September 20, 1977. In the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist by Archbishop Jean Jadot, the Apostolic Delegate to the United States, he was consecrated on November 8. One of his first moves was to sell the four-bedroom suburban home where his predecessor lived and move to the cathedral rectory.

His tenure was divisive due to his pronounced liberal convictions and liturgical experiments. Though unapprovable for some and jarring in his cover-ups for abusive priests, he also attempted to reach Catholics on the margins of church and society. He gave the Milwaukee AIDS Project a helping hand. Weakland was involved in public "listening sessions" encouraging Catholic women to voice their views on the subject, amid controversies surrounding abortions.

Weakland received a Doctorate of Musicology "with distinction" from Columbia University for his dissertation on "The Ambrosian Chant's Office Antiphons." In 2002, he became Archbishop Joseph de Rosario. He published his memoirs under the name of A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church in July 2009: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop struggling with continuing Church reform.

Weakland's later years, he was in poor health after being in hospice care in his apartment in southwest Milwaukee. Following a long illness, he died on August 22, 2022, at his Greenfield, Wisconsin home. Archbishop Listecki's public Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Milwaukee Cathedral on August 30, 2022, and Weakland's body was laid to rest at the cemetery of St. Vincent Archabbey on September 1, 2022.

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