Subject: Pope Benedict XVI

• Everyone Look Busy: 'Black Pope' Headed to San Francisco

  Born in Spain, educated in Japan, now 'Black Pope'America now has a black president. And next week San Francisco will be getting a visit from the Black Pope. No, this has nothing to do with the deeper meanings of the Vatican's white smoke and dark smoke, and Pope Benedict XVI was not a black member of the Hitler Youth. "Black Pope" is simply a nickname for the Superior General of the Jesuit Order -- and he's a-comin' here. According to the publicity folks at the University of San Francisco -- an

  January 30, 2009

• Pulpit Nonfiction

  August 15, 2007

• Pollution Absolution

  A company is dumping questionable materials into the ocean so that you can buy forgiveness in the form of carbon credits

  July 18, 2007

• No sex, no drugs, and Shields & Yarnell. It must be hell.

  April 4, 2007

• Devils in Disguise

  A documentary portrait of a pedophile priest and his pious protectors

  October 25, 2006

• Subpoenaed -- Again

  But he couldn't dodge a determined process server

  January 18, 2006

• Levada's Secret

  January 4, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  September 7, 2005

• The Reformation of Matthew Fox

  Against the odds, an Oakland theologian -- most famous as a critic of Pope Benedict XVI -- takes his inclusive notion of Christianity global

  September 7, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  August 10, 2005

• Blind Eye Unto the Holy See

  Pope Benedict XVI named him Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, William J. Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar

  July 13, 2005

• Letters

  April 28, 1999

• Pre-Multimedia: The Light Show

  March 3, 1999

• Angels & Demons has a need for speed

  May 13, 2009