Pope’s Appointment to Archdiocese of San Francisco is Strong Defender of Marriage
From Whispers in the Loggia:
A “major announcement on the future of the archdiocese” already set for 10am local time at St Mary’s Cathedral, at Roman Noon the pontiff named Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, 56—the San Diego-born head of the neighboring Oakland church since 2009, and lead hand behind the US bishops’ national effort to defend the traditional definition of marriage—to succeed Archbishop George Niederauer, who reached the retirement age of 75 in June 2011.
After a half-century of occupants accused by conservatives of soft-pedaling church teaching in favor of a more conciliatory approach toward constituencies ranging from gays and lesbians to Nancy Pelosi—a group of prelates among which even the recently-retired lead guardian of church doctrine, Cardinal William Levada, was not exempt from stinging criticism—the move delivers the long-desired “Holy Grail” of the American Catholic Right firmly into the faction’s hands, in the form of a prelate already known widely both for his forcefulness and a stringent doctrinal cred almost unequaled among his confreres on the national bench.
For liberal Catholics, meanwhile, the appointment is likely to be received as something akin to the city’s Great Earthquake of 1906, or even more apocalyptic events. In a nutshell, an appointment of this dramatic, potentially explosive nature is enough to make even last year’s blockbuster move in the States—likewise a final US move of the Curia’s annual work-cycle—appear almost mild by comparison.
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I really, really like Benedict. What a superb move, throwing a lifeline to faithful, orthodox Catholics in SF.
[1] Posted by Jeffersonian on 7-28-2012 at 03:53 PM · [top]
I love this appointment! I don’t care if it’s San Francisco; libchurchers should not be coddled.
I hope he denies communion to Pelosi.
[2] Posted by Newbie Anglican on 7-28-2012 at 07:15 PM · [top]
Oh, boy, talk about a poisoned chalice! I hope the new Archbishop will live up to his name, Cordileone, “Lion-Hearted” and reclaim this city from the evil influences that have afflicted it for so long.
[3] Posted by Dr. Mabuse on 7-28-2012 at 08:16 PM · [top]
I think Chick-fil-A will soon open a new franchise across the street from St Mary’s Cathedral.
[4] Posted by hanks on 7-28-2012 at 09:15 PM · [top]
We’ll see about retaking the city, Doc, it may be a trifle ambitious at this point. It’s hard to clean up a town whose entire identity is being dirty. Yet it’s good to see an Archbishop appointed whose focus will be something other than how to finagle a better spot for the archdiocese’s float in the Pride parade.
[5] Posted by Jeffersonian on 7-29-2012 at 08:31 AM · [top]
I’ll be happy if he just recognized fake nunswhen he seen them.
[6] Posted by Words Matter on 7-29-2012 at 09:25 AM · [top]
My next “Johnson’s Law of Episcopal Thermodynamics” prediction:
Sometime in the next 3 years, TEC will back a legal effort by a revisionist Catholic congregation to leave the Catholic Church and keep their property.
[7] Posted by tjmcmahon on 7-29-2012 at 09:45 AM · [top]
Yes, Newbie, it could be that “ardent Catholic” Pelosi might finally be told not to receive communion in her home diocese.
[8] Posted by Katherine on 7-29-2012 at 07:27 PM · [top]
Being born in San Diego, and coming from Oakland, it seems likely that he won’t be as stunningly naive as his predecessor.
Words Matter, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are linked with the Folsom Street Fair. Both organizations have websites that would make the ancient city of Sodom look like a children’s summer camp.
Anyone wanting to know the true nature of homosexual practice need only visit those websites. Not at work, of course.
In 2007 the promotional poster for Folsom was an obscene, blasphemous caricature of the Lord’s Supper.
The Church has a lot of work in San Francisco.
[9] Posted by Ralph on 7-30-2012 at 05:59 AM · [top]
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