Posted on 02/28/2015 8:40:59 AM PST by marshmallow
San Francisco, Calif., Feb 27, 2015 / 05:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Sam Singer’s public relations firm spun a Chevron oil refinery disaster in California and fought back a legal ruling in Ecuador that could have awarded billions of dollars to indigenous people for the company’s alleged pollution damage to the Amazon.
Now he’s been hired to attack San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. He even wants Pope Francis to do his work.
Everyone is praying that the Pope will remove the San Francisco Archbishop and these priests,” Singer said in a Google+ post on Feb. 18, Ash Wednesday.
A revolution is brewing in S.F. Catholic Church against Archbishop Cordileone morality clauses,” he said in a Feb. 13 tweet referring to the controversy over standards for Catholic high school teachers.
The San Francisco-based Singer Associates, Inc., in its biography of Singer, said that the firm’s founder has been described as “one of the most powerful people in the San Francisco Bay Area” for “his ability to impact the news for his clients.”
Singer told the newspaper SF Weekly that “concerned parents” are paying for his services in their dispute with Archbishop Cordileone.
The beginning of this public relations war was bland enough.
The Archdiocese of San Francisco on Feb. 3 announced that explanations of Catholic teaching would be added to the faculty and staff handbooks for its four high schools. It also proposed new morals clauses for teacher contracts that would define teachers as having a ministerial role. The archdiocese said the changes to the handbook and teacher contract did not contain anything new but were intended to “clarify existing expectations that Catholic teachers in their professional and public lives uphold Catholic teaching.”
Archbishop Cordileone said the changes focused on sexual morality and religious practice because confusion is prevalent about the Church’s.....
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Good article.Thanks.
Looks like the Archbishop has all the right enemies.
Prayers for Archbishop Cordileone. (heart of a lion)
I hope this jerk is just as confounded by God in trying to get rid of Archbishop Cordileone as Cardinal Roger Mahony was in attacking Mother Angelica.
“everyone is praying” that the bishop be removed?
Reminds me of that NYC movie theatre critic who lamented how could Nixon win when nobody I know voted for him...
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