Here Are the Hundreds of SF Archdiocese Catholic Clergy Accused of Sexual Abuse
30 September 2022 SF News Joe Kukura
On Thursday, a group of Catholic Church sexual abuse survivors revealed a public list of 312 clergy and non-ordained church staff of the Archdiocese of San Francisco who stand credibly accused of sexual abuse, a list Archbishop Cordileone has long refused to disclose.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, leader of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, is an extremely judgmental, fire-and-brimstone kind of bishop. When he banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion wafers at all SF Catholic churches this year, he said her support for abortion rights was “a manifestly grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others.” His diatribes against the LGBTQ community include his saying that the community has a “deeply problematic understanding of human sexuality and sexual behavior.” When he campaigned against same-sex marriage, he claimed that “Too many children are being hurt by our culture’s strange and increasing inability to appreciate how important it is to bring together mothers and fathers for children in one loving home.”
But Pastor “Too many children are being hurt” turns into a real quiet wallflower when it comes to priests in his own diocese accused of sexually abusing minors. As we pointed out Thursday, Cordileone is the only California archbishop who has not released the names of priests in his jurisdiction with sexual misconduct allegations, something an estimated 90% of Catholic dioceses nationwide have done to atone for past sins.
1) Archdiocese of San Francisco is the only dioceses in California to not disclose which of its priests are accused of sexual abuse.
'Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests' (SNAP) is now releasing its own list: 312 priests accused of abusing kids in Bay Area over decades.
— Bigad Shaban (@BigadShaban) September 29, 2022
So a group of abuse survivors known as the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) went ahead and released their own list of Bay Area priests accused of sexual misconduct on Thursday.
“We have compiled a list of known and publicly accused men who spent time in your Archdiocese,” SNAP said in a letter they tried to hand-deliver to Cordileone (he refused it, having a PR rep accept it). “While our list clearly does not include information from your ‘secret archives,’ it is a good start that we think will support survivors and inform public policy makers.”
And there are hundreds of SF Archdiocese priests who stand accused. “So far, SNAP has identified 312 perpetrators associated with the San Francisco Archdiocese,” according to the letter.
Before we get to the names, we should note that about 30% of the accused perpetrators are from churches that used to be in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but aren’t anymore. (The archdiocese used to include churches in Monterey, Fresno, and a few other cities, though has since restructured.) Still, 229 of the accused priests did serve in churches in the current Archdiocese of San Francisco, which includes San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo Counties. And of those, 68 of the accused did have assignments in grade schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges.
https://sfist.com/2022/09/30/here-are-the-hundreds-of-sf-archdiocese-catholic-clergy-accused-of-sexual-abuse/