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Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (born June 5, 1956) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of San Francisco since 2012. He previously served as Bishop of Oakland from 2009 to 2012 and as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Diego from 2002 to 2009.
In January 2003, Bishop William Weigand of Sacramento said Governor of California Gray Davis, a Catholic who supported abortion rights, should stop receiving communion. [9] In 2004, then-Archbishop Burke said he would not give communion to 2004 presidential candidate and Senator John Kerry, in part because of his position on abortion. According ...
The August 2018 grand jury report includes all Pennsylvania dioceses except Philadelphia and Altoona–Johnstown, which had already issued earlier reports.. A grand jury investigation of Catholic Church sexual abuse in Pennsylvania lasted from 2016 to 2018, and investigated the history of clerical sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
The canonical situation of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a group founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, is unresolved.The Society of Saint Pius X has been the subject of much controversy since 1988, when Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta were illicitly consecrated as bishops at Ecône, at the International Seminary of Saint ...
On May 3, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Barber as bishop of Oakland. He was consecrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on May 25, 2013. Barber was the first American jesuit bishop appointed by Francis. [4] [3] Besides English, Barber speaks Italian, French, Samoan, liturgical Spanish and Latin. [5]
On August 4, 2017, it was announced that a civil lawsuit was filed against Thomas J. O'Brien, who served as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix between the years 1982 to 2003, [13] O'Brien is accused of sexually molested a boy on several occasions at parishes in Phoenix and Goodyear from 1977 to 1982. [13]
To replace Vigneron, who had become archbishop of Detroit, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Diocese of San Diego as the next bishop of Oakland. [14] In 2011, Cordileone was made chairman of the American Bishops' conference's Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage. [15] A year later, Cordileone ...
Before 2021, several dioceses had permitted the blessing of same-sex couples, including Linz in Austria and Basel in Switzerland. [16] [17] On 15 March 2021, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (renamed the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2022) issued a responsum ad dubium ("response to doubt") that responded in the negative to the question of whether the Church has "the ...