No Basis in Reality Levada Staying Put As Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Says Archdiocesan Spokesman, California Catholic Daily, June 1, 2008

" No Basis in Reality"
Levada Staying Put As Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Says Archdiocesan Spokesman

California Catholic Daily
June 1, 2008

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In response to a report in the Italian daily La Repubblica that Cardinal Christoph Schnborn, Archbishop of Vienna, could become the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a spokesman for the archdiocese has told Stephanscom Austrian Radio the rumor is unfounded.

On May 25, La Repubblica published an article by Marco Politi in which he offered a "general analysis" of the General Assembly of the Bishops' Conference of Italy. Commenting on the rumor about Cardinal Schnborn, Politi said a personnel change at the Vatican was possible but that "until the Pope has signed off" on any changes, "everything is subject to question."

The German daily Der Standard, picking up on the report in La Repubblica, said that if Cardinal Schnborn were to take the post, Cardinal William Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco, would have to return to the United States.

In response to the speculation, Erich Leitenberger, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Vienna, said on May 27 that "the rumor has been brought up numerous times" and "has no basis in reality."