BISHOP DONALD TRAUTMAN’S NAME REMOVED FROM UNIVERSITY AND HONORARY DEGREE REVOKED
PITTSBURGH (PA)
Tribune-Review
Tribune-Review
September 29, 2018
Gannon University Friday joined the list of Catholic institutions citing the Aug. 14 Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in a decision to revoke honors accorded a former bishop.
GoErie first reported news of the Catholic university’s decision Friday afternoon.
Fallout from the grand jury report that said 301 priests abused about 1,000 children across Pennsylvania over seven decades has rippled across Pennsylvania and the nation over the last six weeks.
GoErie reported that Gannon University trustees voted to strike retired Bishop Donald W. Trautman’s name from a campus building on its downtown Erie campus, revoked an honorary degree it had bestowed on the bishop who headed the diocese from 1990-2012 and canceled a lecture series that bore his name.
Trautman, 82, who came under fire in the report for not moving aggressively on allegations of clergy sexual abuse defended his record saying he had disciplined and defrocked pedophile priests.
GoErie quoted Trautman as calling Gannon’s decision “unjust and unchristian.”
Gannon said it was following Catholic tradition of “giving voice to victims.”
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Another such darling, although already disgraced some time ago, is Rembert Weakland. Over at the chant Cafe, there is a post about how such liturgical tyrants just simply disobeyed Paul VI to get their way.
http://www.chantcafe.com/2018/09/are-we-listening-to-young-people/
Long recognized as Troutperson. The master of quibbles. Objected to the word: consubstantial in the Creed. Spoke as a true Jansenist on many occasions. I believe his name was mentioned in the Pa. document of shame.
And Remebert Weakland still has a building named after him at the Cathedral. In Milwaukee, they still do not get it. They think archbishops having sex with other men and then paying them off is OK.
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