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New York Daily News
BY DEBORAH HASTINGS NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, April 16, 2015
Scores of Catholic leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area have signed an open letter to Pope Francis calling for the removal of controversial Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who calls homosexual relations “gravely evil.”
In a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, more than 100 donors and church members asked the pontiff to replace Cordileone for encouraging “an atmosphere of division and intolerance.”
The signers included Brian Cahill, retired executive director of Catholic Charities, Tom Brady Sr., father of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and Adobe Systems chairman Charles Geschke.
The petitioners’ complaints include: the appointment of a parish pastor who banned altar girls from church services; an elementary school pamphlet that asked children if they masturbated or engaged in sodomy, and a hardline stance by the archbishop against same-sex marriage and same-sex relationships.
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