San Franciscan Selected by Pope

William Levada, who currently fills the catholic office of archbishop in San Francisco has now been promoted to head the "congregation for the doctrine of the faith," formerly known as, the office of the inquisition.

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Don Lattin writes:
Pope Names San Franciso Archbishop as orthodoxy chief


"Pope Benedict XVI today named San Francisco Archbishop William Levada to lead the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - making the Bay Area leader the church's top cop for doctrine and second most powerful man in Rome."

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"Looking back, however, one can see early signs of Levada's destiny during his formative years of seminary study at the North American College and the prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

His doctoral dissertation was on papal infallibility."

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