Sounds good to me! Levada probably wouldn’t be very much better than Mahony, judging by his performance in SF, but he’s less of a media hound and probably, in the long run, a shade more orthodox and obedient than Roger. I think one of the problems with these guys is, alas, you can’t “unmake” them. So you have to keep shuffling them around until the one who happens to be a problem ends up some place where (a) he can’t do any damage; and (b) it doesn’t put some other cardinal’s nose out of joint that he was placed there.
O’Brien would be great for New York. I would hate to see him passed over again, especially if it is given to Levada just to get him out of Rome.
Thy Will be done. Maybe NY doesn’t deserve O’Brien.