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	William Joseph Levada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Joseph Levada, (born 15 June 1936, Long Beach, California) is the Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco and currently serves in the Roman Curia as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		From 1976 to 1982, Levada was an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican.
		Levada was ordained a bishop on May 12, 1983 to the titular see of Capreae, and was assigned as an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Joseph_Levada (1815 words)

	The Word From Rome May 13, 2005
		Second, Levada worked in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1976 to 1982, during the era that Croatian Cardinal Franjo eper was prefect under Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, and for the early months of Ratzinger's own term.
		Levada also served on a joint U.S.-Vatican mixed commission that finalized the American norms concerning priests accused of sexual abuse, as well as on a task force on the church's response to dissenting Catholic politicians.
		Levada's appointment to the CDF is tantamount to a vote of confidence, in a certain sense, for American Catholicism.
	www.nationalcatholicreporter.org /word/word051305.htm (3909 words)

	Madeira Explorers for levada and leisure walks
		The mini-canals are irrigation systems developed to distribute water from the rainfall heavy and wet regions on the north of the island to the drier sun parched regions of the south.
		The levadas cover a total distance of 2500 km, and date back to as far as the early 16th century.
		Although the Levadas were constructed primarily for agricultural/industrial use they are just as important for tourists and local people alike who want to enjoy outdoor adventure activities inaccessible by cars.
	www.madeira-levada-walks.com (198 words)

	REGAIN Ex Legionaries Forums - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Levada, 68, was named Friday by Pope Benedict XVI to be his successor as prefect of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		Levada also has been a leading voice in the church's opposition to gay marriage, saying it was not discriminatory to limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
		Levada brokered a compromise that expanded health care even further: he said anyone in the household of a city employee including children, parents, even roommates should be covered, and thus managed to shift the spotlight from homosexuality to health care.
	www.exlegionaries.com /xlegion/viewthread.php?tid=1256 (2489 words)

	Levada a John Paul II Conservative
		Levada was well known as an openly conservative John Paul II Catholic in a vigorously liberal, heavily secular city.
		Levada, 68, receives low marks from victims of church sex abuse, who say he has followed the church hierarchy's lead in moving too slowly -- doing too little, too late -- to remove priests accused of sexual abuse, both here and as the archbishop of Portland, Ore., from 1986 to 1995.
		Levada's conservatism has brought him to the highest echelons of power at the Vatican, though his background seems to have groomed him for a place in the Catholic Church's capital.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301769.html (682 words)

	Madeira: Levada Walk 1
		The levada follows the contours, of course, which means it weaves in and out of the ravines.
		One of the neat things is that the levada is often integrated right into the architecture of the homes it passes.
		The levada path is a sidewalk used for daily traffic for many of the people living on its route; in some cases, the only access to the home (no road access).
	www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~dfk/trips/2000Madeira/levadaWalk1.html (655 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mayor rings farewell tribute to Archbishop Levada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Levada, 69, will leave this month for his new appointment as head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the post held by former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI.
		Levada said before the dinner that most Catholics were pleased with the way the archdiocese has handled sex abuse allegations.
		Levada has agreed to waive diplomatic immunity, which he'll have in his new Vatican post, and will be deposed in San Francisco in January.
	www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2005-08-14-sflevada_x.htm (384 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Holy See seeks to limit scope of Levada deposition in bankruptcy of Oregon ...
		Levada was named by Pope Benedict XVI to take over the pontiff's old job as prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on May 13.
		Levada was served with a subpoena on Aug. 10, right before he left for Rome, to give a deposition as a witness in the Portland archdiocese's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
		In addition, Levada should be allowed to assert privileges as a high-ranking official of a foreign state, including judicial privilege because the congregation he heads has a "judicial function" – that of examining offenses to the faith and imposing sanctions.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20051025-1613-vatican-oregonbankruptcy.html (613 words)

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		Levada was in turn ousted from Moscow University, stripped of his title as a professor, ostracized by all official institutions, and banned from being published.
		Several Western publications have discussed “the case of Levada” (this was the title of a book about Soviet sociologists), and expressed contempt for the Kremlin’s persecution of one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the country.
		Yuri Levada, the symbol of professionalism, intellectual honesty and boldness, escaped any public suspicions of corruption (a rare case in Russia today), and his publications and interviews have left no doubt about his attitudes toward the political processes in the country.
	www.msu.edu /~shlapent/levada.htm (1205 words)

	Madeira Levada Walks - More Watery Thoughts
		The devisors and builders of the original levada system could not have known that centuries later, a strange breed of humans called tourists, dressed in Reeboks and Nikons, would marvel at their labours and trek for pleasure along the hundreds of miles of irrigation channels taking pictures as they went.
		While many levada walks are on the flat or on gentle gradients, others are positively hair-raising and only to be attempted by experienced hikers properly clothed, booted and equipped.
		There are a limited number of guidebooks which plot the walkable part of the levada system, grade the walks according to the level of difficulty and advise on transport to and from the start and end of an outing.
	www.madeira-island.com /features/1999/levadas/levadas_an_introduction2.html (537 words)

	Catholic World News (CWN)
		Nevertheless, yesterday's announcement from Rome-- that Archbishop William Levada would be the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-- was shocking.
		In 1976, Levada was appointed an Official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican at the recommendation of then-Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
		Levada was temporizing and finding a way to comply with the SF Board of Supervisors' edict that city contractors provide spousal benefits to gays who shack up together, the Salvation Army, which has historically had a huge charitable presence in the City, refused to comply.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=37124 (4324 words)

	Levada an Enigma in San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Benedict, for whom Levada worked in the Vatican on and off between 1976 and 1982, has been denounced by gay and lesbian leaders since the day of his election.
		Levada said Mass for the group in the city’s cathedral on the morning of the protest.
		Levada did not, however, join the chorus of some other church officials, including Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput and Saint Louis’ Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke, who took the next step and called on the church to refuse the sacraments to John Kerry, the 2004 presidential candidate who is a Catholic.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_420/levadaanenigmainsan.html (1160 words)

	Catholics in the Public Square
		Levada sidestepped the gay issue by emphasizing that health coverage should be available to everyone, and helped persuade the city to broaden the requirement so that any member of a household—including blood relatives—could receive benefits.
		Levada countered that his experience with the issue is an advantage for the church....The [CDF] reviews all sex abuse claims against clergy, to see whether a priest should be forced out, given a church trial or found innocent....
		Levada issued a nuanced statement saying parishioners must accept Catholic teaching that abortion and euthanasia are evil to be in full communion with the church.
	thepublicsquare.blogspot.com /2005/05/point-blank-round-23-cdfs-archbishop.html (1526 words)

	USATODAY.com - Benedict selects American as defender of church doctrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Levada sidestepped the gay issue by emphasizing that health coverage should be available to everyone, and helped persuade the city to broaden the requirement so that any member of a household — including blood relatives — could receive benefits.
		Levada worked at the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith previously, from 1976 to 1982.
		Levada served on a U.S.-Vatican commission that worked out the American norms on how to deal with priests accused of sexual abuse as well as on a task force on the U.S. church's response to dissenting Catholic politicians.
	www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2005-05-15-vatican-post_x.htm (845 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		Levada, 68, was named prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a powerful post that Benedict himself held for nearly a quarter-century until his election as pope on April 19.
		Church observers say the choice of Levada -- doctrinally conservative, a veteran of the church bureaucracy and well-versed in the 21st-century social trends confronting the church -- is a clear sign that Benedict intends to steer a traditional course while also engaging the larger world.
		Levada shares the pope's conservative doctrinal views, but at times has shown a pragmatic and open streak.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/166/story_16655_1.html (1231 words)

	Levada in line for key job at Vatican / Pope said to want S.F. prelate as chief doctrinal watchdog
		San Francisco Archbishop William Levada is the new pope's leading candidate to become the chief doctrinal watchdog for the 1.1 billion member Roman Catholic Church, according to Vatican sources and several media reports.
		The Chronicle reported on May 4, the day after Levada became the first U. bishop to have a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI, that the pontiff was considering the San Francisco prelate for the head of the Vatican Congregation to the Doctrine of the Faith.
		Levada, who worked on the Vatican staff of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1976 to 1982, has an intimate understanding of the issues facing the U.S. church, having served as the Archbishop of Portland from 1986 to 1995, and since then as the Archbishop of San Francisco.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/11/MNGDACNA051.DTL (939 words)

	For Levada, an honor and a challenge / PROFILE / Archdiocese's restive faithful predictably made his tenure as ...
		Days later, Levada became one of the first bishops in the world to be granted an audience with the 78-year-old pontiff.
		For his part, San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who is gay and Catholic, believes that Levada and the church's hierarchy embody a culture of exclusion and resistance to wholesale change even in the wake of the clergy abuse scandal that humbled and humiliated the church.
		Levada was known for painstaking interest in the day-to-day operational details of his administration.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/14/MNGIRCPBFO1.DTL (2226 words)

	Pope names San Francisco Archbishop William Levada as orthodoxy chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Levada, a 68-year-old theologian, is the first American to hold the post, which is the highest position to be held by an American at the Vatican.
		Levada joined the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1976 and served for six years, leaving shortly after when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took over as prefect in 1981.
		Levada has served as archbishop of San Francisco since 1995; before that, he was archbishop of another largely liberal American city, Portland, Oregon.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/05/13/state/n041122D98.DTL (405 words)

	TIME.com: American Said To Be Tapped as Vatican's Doctrinal Enforcer -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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.
		Another Vatican source said the former Cardinal Ratzinger and Levada had built what he called a "hidden friendship" over the years outside of the Roman power circles, dating back to the period the American spent as a mid-level official in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the early 1980s.
		Levada currently serves as one of four archbishop consulting members of the Congregation.
	www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,1059842,00.html (556 words)

	Fr. Eugene Heidt and Archbishop Levada (A diocesan priest's experience) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Levada publicly lauded Zieman on the day he resigned his Santa Rosa post, even as the bishop insisted that the allegations against him were false.
		Levada consults with one or another member of the group after each session with Zieman and has met personally with Zieman and the group at least twice.
		Levada may be a problematic appointment, but this piece isn't going to be the one to convince me of that.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1402954/posts (6775 words)

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		Pope Benedict XVI appointed San Francisco’s Archbishop William Levada as Prefect of the Vatican’s Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		Levada’s position seems more in line with that of Cardinal Mahony from Los Angeles, who “favors educating Catholic politicians on the immorality of abortion, rather than imposing any religious sanctions.”[3] It is the insipid Vatican II solution: endless dialogue that goes nowhere while babies are butchered daily — and by the thousands.
		Levada goes on to say that the Church does not believe there should be a widespread campaign to promote the use of these devices, and that the “better policy” is one that “corresponds to God’s plan, to refrain from sex until you marry and are faithful to one person.”[28]
	www.cfnews.org /LevadaCDF.htm (3981 words)

	Catholic World News : US archbishop to head Vatican doctrinal congregation
		Levada made a rule (still in effect as far as I know) that no minors were to be allowed to work in parish offices, either as volunteers or as paid staff.
		Levada is the type to openly fight with his leader.
		Levada knows the depths of the problem in the U. Church and where the skeletons are hidden.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=37112 (1830 words)

	USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) - Archbishop Levada to Head Doctrinal Congregation — Conference President Praises ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After parochial assignments in the Archdiocese, Father Levada was sent for graduate studies in Rome and subsequently served as a professor of theology at St. John’s Seminary.
		From 1976 to 1982, Father Levada served as an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; and, in 1980, he was named a chaplain of the Holy Father, with the title of “monsignor.”
		He is currently a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and he served on the editorial committee for the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
	www.usccb.org /comm/archives/2005/05-120.shtml (662 words)

	History of Archbishop William Levada — StJosephsmen.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Archbishop William Joseph Levada was born in Long Beach, California, on June 15, 1936, to Joseph Levada, Jr., and Lorraine Nunez Levada, both natives of Concord in the San Francisco Bay area.
		On March 29, 1983, Monsignor Levada was appointed Titular Bishop of Capri and Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, and received episcopal ordination at the hands of Cardinal Timothy Manning in St. Vibiana Cathedral, Los Angeles, on the Feast of the Ascension, May 12, 1983.
		Archbishop William J. Levada was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco on August 17, 1995, and transferred to San Francisco on October 24, 1995.
	www.stjosephsmen.com /CDF (1274 words)

	Apparently It's True (Levada to be head of CDF?) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Archbishop Levada is the prelate who compromised with the city of San Francisco over the city’s demands that Catholic Charities and other Church organizations provide “domestic partner” benefits to employees.
		Levada, observers suspect, is afraid to anger and alienate priests attached to his predecessor's policies.
		Levada was a student of Ratzinger's, I believe and worked in the CDF office before being appointed a Bishop and sent to the US.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/1400371/posts (5417 words)

	Archdiocese of San Francisco \| Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Archbishop William J. Levada, named May 13 by the Holy Father to be Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, resigned as Apostolic Administrator effective today, the 10th anniversary of his appointment to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
		Archbishop Levada said he was sympathetic to those who hold close ties to the church and he said he would be glad to meet with the group of former parishioners.
		In the letter, Archbishop Levada said, “Just four years ago, the people of this state voted in favor of an initiative measure, by a margin of 61 to 39 percent, which specified that only a marriage between one man and one woman would be recognized as legal and valid in California.
	www.sfarchdiocese.org /pressrelease.html (16511 words)

	Kremlin lobs another shot at marketplace of ideas \| csmonitor.com
		Levada has lately been showing signs of distress under the presidency of Vladimir Putin.
		Levada says he can't understand why the Kremlin should fear scientific public opinion research.
		When he graduated from university, in 1952, sociology was banned in the USSR as a "bourgeois science." Levada was allowed to carry out limited surveys during the political thaw initiated by Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s, but his institute was closed down as the freeze returned under Mr.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1001/p07s02-woeu.html (1026 words)

	Insight Scoop \| The Ignatius Press Blog: Levada Among Other Candidates?
		Following up on the rumor of Archbishop Levada's alleged impending appointment to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, here is a story from Newsday with a slightly different take: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-vatican-doctrinal-chief,0,4395943.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines.
		By the way, one of the Roman sources purporting that Archbishop Levada is the Pope's pick as CDF head also reports that Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., is being considered as Archbishop of San Francisco.
		Levada was on the CDF before Ratzinger was.
	insightscoop.typepad.com /2004/2005/05/levada_among_ot.html (1116 words)

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