[starfish923]

Cardinal George is actually one of the more conservative and orthodox bishops in the US, so I'm surprised by his comments. I can only imagine what Mahoney would have to say about this. But George is one of the good ones. He's had a horrid mess to clean up in Chicago after Bernardin, and to my knowledge, he's doing a pretty good job.

Archbishop Levada was here in the archdiocese of San Francisco....talking about messes and homosexual activists. He's in Rome now because His Holiness knows a smart, steely-backboned bishop when he see him.
There ARE more good ones than bad ones.

I can see the problem with timing. But it wouldn't do much to change the activists. No matter when His Holiness comes and/or releases The Document, it will rile the activists and put the spotlight on the homosexual priests, be they good, bad or indifferent.
Just no getting around it.

In fact, the two things might be really best to do at once, the visit and the document, so as to get it all over with in one fell swoop.

[nickcarraway]

Where do you get what you are saying from? Archbishop Levada gave a talk to the public before the 2004 presidential election strongly diasgreeing with then-Cardinal Ratzinger's statement to the U.S. bishops about withholding Communion from politicians. Archbishop Levada cozied up to Cardinal Ratzinger when he visited, but otherwise he did not agree with him on most issues.