Posts Tagged ‘Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’

Archbishop’s mother blames herself for drunk driving charge

Friday, August 31st, 2012

San Francisco’s new Catholic archbishop is scheduled to be arraigned on a drunk driving charge on October 9 — five days after his installation — following his arrest while driving his mother home from dinner at a friend’s house. Archbishop-elect Salvatore Cordileone’s mother Mary told media she blamed herself for her son’s misdemeanour. Archbishop Cordileone, Read more

Same-sex opponent to be archbishop of San Francisco

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By choosing a staunch same-sex marriage foe as the new archbishop of San Francisco, the Vatican has laid bare a rift among local Catholics, some of whom strongly support the Church’s position while others emphatically don’t. Salvatore Cordileone played a key role in the passage of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned same-sex Read more