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We Support Archbishop Cordileone's Desire That Our Catholic Schools Should Be Catholic!

We are Catholics of San Francisco’s diverse Catholic community, including immigrants and children of immigrants from many lands. Our voices are among those that many of San Francisco’s wealthy and powerful elites hope will not be heard. Yet we will not permit ourselves to be silenced or pushed to the margins.

The schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco were built by the Catholic Church, funded and subsidized by the contributions of ourselves and other ordinary Catholics giving their pennies from the pews over the generations. We have a right to expect when we send our children to Catholic schools, they will be taught vibrant authentic Catholicism.

We know these Catholic schools have done a great service to San Francisco by providing an excellent, affordable education to thousands of schoolchildren, many of whom are not Catholic –and who like us are thankful for the choice in education that the Catholic Church has provided.

We want our Catholic schools to be excellent, affordable, and fully Catholic, representing the values and teachings of our faith. It is perfectly reasonable and appropriate for the faithful – those who have built and funded our Catholic schools -- to expect that those who instruct our children in our schools will respect Catholic teachings.  This is why there are thousands of us in the community who give praise and thanks to God for Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s work to keep our Catholic schools authentically Catholic.

We refuse to stand by idly or helplessly as elites attempt to drive our Archbishop from our community because they despise the moral teachings of the Church which he courageously upholds. On the contrary, we applaud and support him, and we will vigorously defend him against their unjust attacks. Please go to SFCatholics.org to join our coalition.

As faithful Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco—and as freedom loving Americans—we believe that the Catholic Church has the same right as any other religious group to teach its doctrines of faith and morals in its private schools.  That is why we are among the thousands to proudly stand with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.