Michael Barber - Complicit Clergy

BRAVO! San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Oakland Bishop Michael Barber Issue Pastoral Letter Condemning Gender Ideology

October 17, 2023 Gender Ideology from by Ashley Sadler

Two high-ranking California Catholic prelates released a joint pastoral letter upholding the true “nature of the human person” in opposition to radical gender ideology. The letter comes after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reasserted Catholic teaching on human sexuality in March, rejecting the “dualism” of gender ideology. On September 29, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of … Read more

Bishop Barber of Oakland Files Motion to Keep Names of Accused Child Sex Abusers Secret

June 23, 2023 from ABC News by Dan Noyes

The Catholic Diocese of Oakland is trying to keep the names of priests who abused children a secret. They filed that motion in a federal bankruptcy court as the diocese faces hundreds of new lawsuits. A state law gave survivors of sexual abuse by clergy until this past Dec. 31 to file lawsuits, no … Read more

Oakland Becomes 29th U.S. Diocese to Declare Bankruptcy

May 9, 2023 from by

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland became the 29th U.S. dioceses to file for bankruptcy Monday due to hundreds of new child sex abuse claims, becoming the second diocese in California to do so. The San Francisco Bay Area diocese faces more than 330 lawsuits brought under a California law allowing claims that would have … Read more