Cardinal Levada, a Menlo Park resident, charged with DUI in Hawaii - The Almanac Online
A resident of St. Patrick's Seminary & University in Menlo Park, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, has been charged with drunken driving after being stopped on Aug. Cardinal Levada, 79, is out of custody after posting $500 bail and is expected in court on Sept. At the time he was pulled over by police, Cardinal Levada was alone and driving a 2015 Nissan Altima, the story said. Cardinal Levada's long career with the Roman Catholic Church includes terms as archbishop of San Francisco and archbishop of Portland, Oregon. He has held a position of great power within the church, succeeding Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) in May 2005 as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This office within the curia -- the Pope's cabinet -- has a mission to "promote and safeguard the doctrine on faith and morals in the whole Catholic world," according to Catholic-hierarchy. The church changed the office's original name -- the Congregation for Universal Inquisition -- in 1908, and again in 1965 to its present name, according to a historical summary at the website. Cardinal Levada, who retired in July 2012, was the first U. S. prelate to hold the Prefect position, the Tribune-Herald story said. He was the former prefect (head) of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, commonly known as the Holy Office (a. k. a. Holy Inquisition). Source: www.almanacnews.com
