San Francisco Threatening to sue Archbishop for Upholding the Faith

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is under legal fire for maintaining sound Catholic teaching and morals in the Catholic schools. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors says that Cordileone's effort to ensure that the city’s Catholic schools uphold the Faith is "discriminatory," and one member of the board is now saying the city is considering legal action.

This is not to mention the backlash Cordileone has received from the majority of school teachers in his archdiocese. A reported 80 percent of teachers in the four archdiocesan high schools sent a petition to Cordileone accusing him of fostering "mistrust and fear" because he proposed a teaching handbook that incorporates material from the Catholic catechism. Moreover he specified that teachers at the four Bay Area schools cannot publicly challenge the Church’s teachings that homosexuality is "contrary to natural law," that contraception is "intrinsically evil," and that embryonic stem cell research is "a crime." The Archbishop held a closed meeting on February 6 with teachers to explain his side of the story. A teacher could face punishment or dismissal for “escorting a woman into an abortion clinic, handing out contraceptives to students, or for being a member of a white supremacist group,” Cordileone said. Cordileone says that teachers who cross doctrinal lines will be dealt with “on a case-by-case basis.” When asked if a teacher could post photos on Facebook of her gay son’s wedding, he said that “if someone was upset and reported it, the person with the Facebook page would have to be talked to.”

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The backlash indeed has been fierce in the city that helped give birth to the gay-rights movement. In early March the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution calling Archbishop Cordileone's efforts to preserve the Church’s moral teaching "contrary to shared San Francisco values of non-discrimination, women’s rights, inclusion, and equality for all humans." The resolution presses the archdiocese "to fully respect the rights of its teachers and administrators, and pursue contract terms with... educators that respect their individual rights, but also recognize the informed conscience of each individual educator to make their own moral decisions and choices outside the workplace." According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Supervisor Mark Farrell, who is Catholic, says “city officials are considering legal action to prevent what [Farrell] described as Cordileone’s discriminatory measures from going into effect.” Eight San Francisco-area lawmakers sent a letter to Archbishop Cordileone on February 17 telling him that his efforts “conflict with settled law, foment a discriminatory environment, violate employees’ civil rights, send an alarming message of intolerance to youth, infringe upon personal freedoms, and strike a divisive tone.” What we're looking at is persecution. "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution." (2 Tim. 3:12) Even so, it appears that God has raised up Archbishop Cordileone to encourage the good fight here in America, in a similar way He raised up Cardinal Burke to defend family values at the historic Vatican Synod last fall. Bear in mind that this attack on Archbishop Cordileone probably would have never happened if it wasn't for the October 2014 Extraordinary Synod on the Family which proposed openness and tolerance to gays and adulterers. The Synod has been a spur for gay activists and has given them a strength they otherwise would not have now. The pope needs to denounce homosexuality with zero-tolerance and require that all Catholic teaching institutions purge gay interest from their teaching manuals. The Church’s only interest in homosexuals is their rehabilitation. In that respect, Cordileone shows himself to be blameless and impartial, and acting with true pastoral concern. As with adulterers, murderers, and thieves who need cleansing, homosexuals likewise need to be cleansed of their vice and restored to grace. They all get the same pill, namely, a good confession with absolution. Nothing more is needed. Fussing over their issue and treating gays like they are special only serves to fuel their fire and spread their plague. We can take our cue from the Savior. Jesus cleansed the lepers and healed the infirm. He didn’t just leave them in their leprosy to suffer, and neither should the clergy! The Church's mission is about conversion, not about dialogue or making pacts. Jesus and His followers never engaged in "dialogue" with the people, but they instructed the people and even rebuked them for failing to receive their doctrine. And whereas they sat among publicans and sinners and were sensitive to their needs, hurts, and their particular conditions in life, they never once received any instruction or overtures from them, since their mission was to teach and enlighten these people so that they could possess the Kingdom of God. Likewise, the Church must never receive instructions or orders from homosexuals, feminists, heretics, or from anyone but God Himself. The Church answers to a Higher Authority, and the state needs to understand this, and to remember that the Establishment Clause of "Separation of Church and State" prevents the state from infringing on the Church's liberty, provided it be Christian. The Supreme Court in 1892 declared the United States "A Christian Nation" in which "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind." According to the Constitution, these infidels stirring up trouble against Archbishop Cordileone must not only cease from their protest, but must follow his way of thinking so that it is reflected in their legislation and judicial procedures. So says God and country! Contact: jmj4today@att.net