R.I.P. Scout26
San Francisco is scandalized that the archbishop administering the Catholic Church locally intends to act like an archbishop administering the Catholic Church locally. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone—King Richard was not the only lion-hearted Catholic—is a San Diego native whose penitential task in this vale of tears is serving as the chief executive officer of the Catholic Church in the American city whose values are most hostile to it, at least in gonadal matters. The archbishop serves, among other things, as the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Defense of Marriage, and is a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage. The archdiocese intends to enforce rules that would require, among others, teachers in its schools to affirm Catholic doctrine on matters such as homosexuality and pornography...What the Catholic Church is working to prevent is the propagation of moral positions at odds with its teachings in its own institutions by its own employees, the subversion of its mission from within.
The people who have the strongest feelings about Catholic teaching tend to be the people who know the least about it.
The man set to become the next archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco was arrested Saturday in San Diego on suspicion of drunken driving as he was taking his elderly mother home after having dinner with friends.Oakland Diocese Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, 56, was headed along San Diego State University's southern edge when he encountered a sobriety checkpoint, said Officer Mark McCullough. Cordileone was amiable but appeared intoxicated and was arrested at 12:26 a.m., McCullough said..."He was very calm, somewhat apologetic at the time," said the officer, who ran the checkpoint that morning. "He said he'd been drinking. But he wasn't a stumbling, falling-down drunk."The archbishop-designee's driving record is clean except for one ticket he got on Dec. 23 for failure to stop at a stop sign, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles...
How is this exactly surprising to anyone, on either side? Roman Catholics are sticking to their beliefs, local population is sticking to its beliefs. Yay for both parties until they try to use the government to oppress the other group.
