What would Jesus do? Not act like these guys. All the while, the church’s pedophilia scandal persists into a third decade because of the clerics’ coverups.

“They” are the church’s archbishops and bishops, in particular those in the United States, who not only advocate for the church’s teachings against gay rights, contraception and abortion, which is their right, but also repeatedly enforce them in ways that often seem un-Christian and downright wicked.

To flip the famed line from “The Godfather Part III,” just when I think I might return to the Catholic Church, they pull me back out. (Liz Hafalia / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) His stance against Nancy Pelosi will alienate others who are tired of U.S. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone leading a service in San Francisco.