CALIFORNIA
SFGate
By Lois Kazakoff on April 17, 2015
With the publication of a full-page ad in The Chronicle, 100 prominent Roman Catholics launched a full-on campaign to have Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone removed from the San Francisco Archdiocese. The archbishop’s two-year tenure has been rocky from the start but became more turbulent when the archbishop insisted teachers at parochial schools in the archdiocese sign a morality clause that characterizes sex outside marriage and homosexual relations as “gravely evil.”
The request to Pope Francis for a new church leader in San Francisco is unprecedented.
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