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How on Earth has San Francisco been getting by all this time without an Archibishop? Back in May, our old Arch-b got transferred to Rome, and we've been without a replacement since. But good news! Utah's giving us Bishop George Niederauer -- in fact, he's being installed today -- and despite being appointed by the Pope, the guy's not all that hostile to the gays. In fact, he seems downright friendly. Verrrrrry friendly. And he's utterly failed to fall into line with the Church's latest talking point, which is that abuse of children by priests is the fault of homosexuals, not pedophiles. But before we get to that, let's have some news about Planned Parenthood.

It was almost a year ago that someone put our names on the mailing list of "Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter," and it's been an eye-opening couple of months. For example, who knew that local conservatives feel that their arguments against gay marriage are "too religious," an interesting criticism for a Catholic newsletter to raise, and that they haven't provided enough "secular reasons for opposing homosexual unions." Good luck thinking of any. The prevailing attitude in "Faith" surprised us -- they seem to feel that the purpose of marriage is "procreation and education" and that homospouses are mere "help-mates" to each other, capable of neither. What a fascinating position. Fascinating and retarded.

"Unitarians Begone!" declares a front-page headline in this month's "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." The article itself is about the unpleasant architecture of a proposed Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland -- we're not sure how Unitarians are to blame, or how it's possible to use the word "begone" without irony in this day and age. Oh well.

According to the editor of Faith, The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter, "most Catholics, at one time or another or a good deal of the time, are greedy, lustful, selfish, unkind, boastful, lazy, covetous, unjust, and gluttinous (sic) -- not to mention faithless, deceitful, and yes, insensitive." Yikes. Um, you forgot "kvetchy." The point that they were trying to make was that it isn't hypocritical for the church to forbid contraception even though many Catholics use it, since Catholics do of things that the church forbids. So, um, the argument seems to be that the Catholic church isn't hypocritical, but Catholic people are. Well put, Captain Editor.

Be still our hearts, the latest issue of our favoritest newsletter ever is finally out: "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." This issue's highlights include a balanced look at Baptism (an "experiment" that "might have some value"), a pr0n scandal at AT&T, and a poor defenseless lady who got in trouble at work, simply for refusing to do her job.