SAN FRANCISCO (CA)
The Desert Sun
Garance Burke
The Associated Press
August 8, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Roman Catholic Archbishop William Levada, soon to be the highest ranking American at the Vatican, celebrated his last Sunday Mass here before thousands of admiring parishioners.
But the event also drew critics. And minutes before Levada began the procession to the altar at St. Mary's Cathedral he was handed a subpoena to testify concerning sex-abuse cases again clergy members.
Levada, a native of Long Beach, will leave later 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.