A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man is not going to move into a New Jersey abbey.The New York Times reported former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland withdrew his acceptance earlier this month after he wrote in his upcoming memoir about his struggles with being gay.
Abbot Giles Hayes of St. Mary's Abbey at Delbarton in Morristown says that wasn't known when the Benedictine monks invited Weakland in February.
The monks administer the all-boys Delbarton prep school, among other things.
The abbot said that Weakland recognized whatever came out of the book might negatively effect them and the 82-year-old decided not to come.
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