Wednesday, May 11, 2005
THE RUMOR MAY BE TRUE
Lee sent in the link to this story from Time:
Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco is likely to be chosen to be the new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the powerful Vatican post held for 24 years by the man who last month became Pope Benedict XVI, several well-placed Vatican sources have told TIME.
"It's a done deal," a senior Vatican official told TIME on Tuesday, after days of rumors that the American was emerging as the frontrunner. "This was a decision directly from the Pope. Levada was already asked, and has accepted. If it ends up not happening, it means somebody got to [the Pope] and convinced him to change his mind."
I guess Cardinal Law will have company now.
This news makes me sick. I thought our new Pope would uphold orthodoxy. Apparently he has turned over a new leaf now that he is the top man. I can't think of another logical explanation for this.
Here are the comments Lee made in Michael Rose's pope blog:
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In January 2002, I wrote a letter of complaint to +Levada about the support given by his ecumenical affairs officer to the United Religions Initiative (URI), a loony interfaith venture led by the Episcopal Bishop of San Francisco. As part of the letter, I included a copy of this Touchstone Magazine story:
http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=13-05-044-r
All I got from the Archbishop was a 2-sentence "thank you for sharing" letter, and an angry call from the ecumenical affairs officer ... who remained on the URI board till the next elections were held in mid-2002. Since early 2002, the Archdiocesan paper has given plenty of free publicity to the URI, and URI literature is passed out at Diocesan events.
Lee
LeePenn at aol dot com
7:26 AM
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Lee Penn said...
Here is a sample of what one can find about +Levada, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the Scandal, thanks to Google:
http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_press_releases/2004_press_releases/
111204_withdraw_from_bishops_race.htm
and
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/12/MNGE79QGG71.DTL
and
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2005-01-19/news/feature_1.html
and
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2003-05-21/news/feature.html
There is a lot more out there ... I got hundreds of Google hits by using the terms archbishop Levada "San Francisco" abuse scandal.
My view: he is, and has been, part of the cover-up. If the Pope moves +Levada to the CDF, I will view it as the highest-level decision that the coverup should continue.
May God have mercy on him ... and on us.
Lee
8:07 AM
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Lee Penn said...
For more data on the Archbishop of San Francisco and his record on the Scandal, go to http://www.bishop-accountability.org and use their Google tool to search the site on Levada. 12 documents come up.
More raw data for researchers ... and for Rome.
Lee
8:23 AM
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Lord have mercy on this beleagured Church!
