SF News Here's What The Archbishop Said At That Anti-Gay Marriage Rally Today; Also, S.F. Church Giving Away Free Weddings Today in D.C., San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone took part in a march organized by the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay group that does everything in its rhetorical power to
SF News North Beach Church Dumps Plans For Pet Cemetery In an effort, it appears, to do some damage control after a sex scandal at a North Beach church made national headlines, the church's rector has put a stop to what was once
SF News S.F. Cardinal William Levada Speaks Out About Vatican Conclave Apparently, San Francisco Cardinal William Levada is one of the most influential people involved in the selection of the next pope, according to the Washington Post and others. Levada actually took over as
misc Guitars? In My Catholic Mass?! Pardon us for being raised by California hippie atheists, ones who (thank God) believed in the word of television more than the word of the Lord, but... is this a problem? Are there
SF News Homosexual Behavior On the Decline, Says Vatican Oh this is rich. A Vatican office reports that U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries are seeing "improvements in halting what they call 'homosexual behavior' among students." Many Catholics have blamed sinful homosexual clergy
SF News San Francisco to Archdiocese: "Pay Up" Since the Catholic Church is trying to shift property from one non-profit to another, San Francisco is now asking the ritual-heavy religious folks to pay up. Why? Well, according to San Francisco City
Arts & Entertainment Vandalism Report Card: Los Gatos Church We're not one to laugh at church vandalism. Ever. But the following story in today's Mercury News is goddamn hilarious. And hilariously bad. Los Gatos police believe the suspects who scrawled swastikas and
SF News Pierre Valley: A Real Neighborhood After All It seems that there is enough evidence to support the neighborhood's existence. Despite its odd pronunciation, which is meant to rhyme with Noe Valley (which we question, since PV has seemingly seceded from
SF News Pete Stark Apologizes to Bush We sure are remorseful these days. First, Archbishop George Niederauer offered his mea culpa to the Catholic Church for giving Communion to the Sisters. Now Stark is getting in on it. After House
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
SF News Archbishop Apologizes for Giving Communion to Shrieking, Anti-Catholic Inverts After getting heat from the Catholic Church and death-by-fiery-car-crash-worthy Bill O'Reilly, Archbishop George Niederauer officially apologized for giving communion to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. This is insane. Gay bars have been serving
misc The State Department Not Feeling the Whole Brokeback Thing According to the State Department, one of the groups in question, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, was once associated with NAMBLA. Years ago. And expelled them. And haven't been associated with since.
SF News Got Housing? First, there are several battles over the tearing down of old buildings to be replaced by condos. Among the buildings being fought over is an abandoned cottage, an old abandoned theater, and an
Arts & Entertainment Bono Makes Appearance At Glide Bono also spoke on the Pope, but graciously called Reverend Williams "The Pope of San Francisco." "Whenever this rock star is in the Bay Area, I have to visit Glide." About John Paul,
