San Francisco is enmeshed in a $14.4 million legal battle with the Catholic Church over whether the local archdiocese can sell property without paying transfer taxes. What are some of the dramatic turns the case has taken?
• So far, Jesus refuses to testify
• Assessor Phil Ting is demanding to be called "Your Holiness"
• The church's lawyers categorically denied that any children were molested, then realized they were at the wrong deposition
• San Francisco really, really needs the money
• Chris Daly made statements clearly deemed heretical by the Diet of Worms in 1415
• Gavin Newsom agreed to testify against the city in exchange for 30 pieces of silver
• The Vatican offered to pay its taxes with indulgences
• San Francisco's archbishop performed an exorcism to rid the city of Willie Brown
• The case has been divided into three trials, which are actually one trial
• City Attorney Dennis Herrera is forced to admit that he doesn't actually speak Latin
• The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence jumped the shark
