SAN FRANCISCO — The announcement by Pope Benedict XVI has been dubbed the "Bombshell by the Bay."

Next week, a key player in the passage of Proposition 8 — a man who has decried the "contraceptive mentality" of modern life — will become the leader of the Catholic Church here in the city that thrust same-sex marriage onto the national stage, the birthplace of the Summer of Love.

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