Pope appoints American to enforce doctrine

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Message from Vatican: The conservative rules are here to stay

<snip> The pope chose an old friend, San Francisco Archbishop William Levada, to be the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. <snip>

When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a document calling homosexuality an “intrinsic disorder," Levada’s predecessor in charge of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Archbishop John Quinn, bore the brunt of the anger of America’s largest gay and lesbian community in the mid-1980s. <snip>

Quinn was a quiet intellectual who showed leniency to various groups of practicing Catholics who lived openly gay lifestyles.

So when Pope John Paul appointed Levada to replace Quinn it was perceived by many as a condemnation of that leniency, and a repressive move on the Vatican’s part. <snip>

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