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MEET THE OPPONENTS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S ARCHBISHOP
First Things ^ | April 17, 2015 | Matthew Schmitz

Posted on 04/18/2015 10:18:39 AM PDT by NYer

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s effort to ensure that Catholic schools are Catholic has led one-hundred San Franciscans who describe themselves as “committed Catholics inspired by Vatican II,” to take out a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle asking Pope Francis to force Cordileone's resignation and appoint in his place an archbishop committed to “our values and your teachings.”

It is worth asking to what extent those “values” and “teachings” align. Francis, who has spoken strongly in the past against gay marriage and transgender ideology, has also called for a church that is “poor and for the poor.” On both counts, one wonders whether Cordileone might not be a likelier representative of Francis’ vision than are the letter’s signatories, for a few of whom biographical details can be found below.

Charles Geschke is the co-chairman of Adobe Systems, which had 2014 revenue of $4.147 billion. He has given over $200,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign and $40,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Reuters reports his basic compensation at $4,129,090 with $5,302,000 in exercisable, $19,993,300 in unexercisable, and $10,993,600 in exercised options compensation.

Louis J. Giraudo is the former chairman of Pabst Brewing and a partner at Coblentz Patch Duffy and Bass LLP, where he “is focused on mergers and acquisitions of companies with revenues of $50 million to $2.5 billion.” He “has negotiated labor agreements for companies with as many as 11,000 employees, as well as acquisitions and sales of hotels and other real property.”

David Grubb is the former president of construction firm Swinerton Inc. After a 240-ton tower crane operated by a subcontractor hired by his firm fell and killed five people in 1989, he told a House subcommittee that “‘we don't deal with safety’ records when it comes to hiring subcontractors.” The company hired by his firm had been cited for fifty-nine violations between 1985 and 1988 with proposed fines totaling $110,000.

Larry Nibbi is CEO of Nibbi Brothers Construction, a company with $199 million in 2014 revenue according to the Engineering News-Record. The company was cited for three serious OSHA violations in 2011 after an inadequately constructed concrete form collapsed, allowing the wet concrete to partly bury three workers. OSHA determined that “the employer overloaded their working platform center support beam that broke in two, causing a catastrophic failure of the platform and the false work above.” The project the injured men were working on was worth $40 million.

Clint Reilly worked on political campaigns for Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer before becoming “founder and owner of the Clinton Reilly Holdings, a diversified family of commercial real estate and hospitality businesses” and amassing an “estimated $100 million fortune.” In 2001, a writer for SF Weekly described a visit to Reilly's home: “My leather-jacketed host, Clint Reilly, taps a code into the security system that unlocks the metal gate to his 120-acre estate in Napa County. In his black Mercedes sedan, we climb past hillside vineyards and through a pine forest, emerging on top of Mount Veeder, where we park in front of a chateau.”

Sam Singer, a PR man hired by opponents of Cordileone, did not sign, but has done much to promote, the letter. He was profiled by SF Weekly in 2014: “When your workspace is engulfed in flames; when your mistress threatens to reveal your illegitimate family; when your restaurant serves up E. coli burgers; when your employees inadvertently kill a young child; when a wild beast rampages through your place of business — you better call Sam Singer.”

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, costs for full-page ads “typically run in the tens of thousands of dollars.” 

As Pope Francis has said, “poor and for the poor.”



TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
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1 posted on 04/18/2015 10:18:39 AM PDT by NYer
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From another blog, their perspective - San Francisco Catholics Petition God To Remove Jesus From Trinity

Ping!

2 posted on 04/18/2015 10:20:30 AM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: NYer

That’s quite a gang. About as Catholic as the Mafia. In fact, less so, from the sound of it. The Mafia has certain principles.


3 posted on 04/18/2015 10:45:29 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: NYer

The Archbishop is a HOLY MAN.....let’s pray that the Pope is, because I’m not sure, sadly.


4 posted on 04/18/2015 10:50:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NYer

The left gets it. Stick your nose and your beliefs into every institution from government, our schools, our workplaces, and our houses of worship, and fire away with no let up. Eventually, all of these institutions buckle under the pressure and the left gets what it wants, which is total control. I think we’re already screwed as a nation. The people on our side don’t have a freaking clue what’s going on while the left rolls over the country like an enormous red tide. I already find myself saying more frequently, “Remember when America was once a great country?”


5 posted on 04/18/2015 11:52:28 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: NYer

The Church has never taken a vow of poverty but some of its nuns and monks have.
viz- Jesus was given gifts of gold as a baby- That`s poor?

Jesus had several rich ladies following him everywhere paying for things. That`s poor?
Judas held the purse of the group- That`s poor?
The Apostles had new members give their property to the early church- That`s poor?
Jesus wore an expensive seamless garement- that`s poor?
Jesus` feet were washed with an expensive ointment-that`s poor?
A rich man gave his tomb for Jesus- That`s poor?

Jesus said “For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; Matt 26:11

Jesus never said “You will always have a poor church.”

“Poor church” is commie propaganda right out of Soviet Union 1930`s.


6 posted on 04/18/2015 12:35:17 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))
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To: NYer
What's Catholic about these people??? I can see their insincerity as a Protestant!
7 posted on 04/18/2015 1:01:10 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: bunkerhill7

The gifts at the Nativity.

gold — signifying his kingship
frankincense — signifying his priesthood/holiness
myrrh — signifying his suffering and death

There is always another level of meaning behind the literal words of the Bible.


8 posted on 04/18/2015 1:08:43 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

If I remember my new and old testaments correctly, God introduced Jesus because the Jews were not doing what He wanted. Thus these “Catholics” should convert to Judaism to practice without Jesus; however I don’t think they want to be under the 10 Commandments or what is laid out in the old testament either.


9 posted on 04/18/2015 2:06:45 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: dowcaet

.....I see down the road angry blowback. It is coming against the left.


10 posted on 04/18/2015 2:55:21 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

I hope you’re right. I think deep down even the lefties know that they’ve gone too far, but they can’t admit to being wrong or else that’s the end of them. So, they’re doubling and tripling down on their moral depravity. The country, as we know it, can be sacrificed, but not liberalism.


11 posted on 04/18/2015 4:09:17 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Salvation

There`s about 5 levels-
1. There`s the greek play on words from the aramaic sound.
2. There`s the juxtaposition of the rhythmic sounds of the strong greek words to signify importance-
3-There`s the aramaic juxtaposition to signify ditto-
4. Then there`s St. Jerome`s latin translation which adds the different sounds and nuances to the greek words into latin in a smoother sounding way than the sharp greek, easier to the ear.
5.There`s the Spanish version which uses words much closer to the Aramaic in the Arabic roots to denote a more loving context therein, thus denoting a closer emotional relationship to Jesus than can be deduced from the greek.

been there done did it


12 posted on 04/18/2015 4:13:39 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))
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To: bunkerhill7

I wasn’t talking about languages, I was talking about the content.


13 posted on 04/18/2015 4:45:09 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NYer

That is by far the worst, most pointless, ignorant, protest letter that I have ever seen....pathetic.


14 posted on 04/19/2015 1:23:04 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: NYer

Excommunicate every one of them. The Church will benefit in the long run.


15 posted on 04/19/2015 3:10:39 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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