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Here's more about Abp. Levada .... a comment that I had posted on Amy Welborn's blog about a week ago when the rumor first surfaced:

Regarding Abp. Levada and his orthodoxy/orthopraxis:

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 a week later from the Archdiocesan 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.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is de facto, if not de jure, a supporter of the United Religions Initiative.

As for the Archbishop and the Scandal ...

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.

Also, 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.

My view: Abp. Levada 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