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When he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI was known as the hard-line enforcer of church doctrine for John Paul II. But the man the new Pontiff has just named to fill his old job, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is harder to pin down. San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada is, for one thing, the first American ever to reach such an influential position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, California, who headed the diocese in Portland, Oregon, before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ratzinger | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...Benedict XVI begin his papacy tabula rasa, unhindered by his reputation. Give him a chance to show himself as our shepherd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 2005 | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...weeks ago Yale finally chose a successor to a throne empty since January. A rigorous selection process culminated in the ascendancy of Handsome Dan XVI, following Handsome Dan XV in a long Eli line of bulldog mascots. But of what other illustrious character does this long dynastic sequence of identical names and numerals remind you? That’s right, you guessed it: Louis XVI...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin, | Title: A Tail of Two Cities | 5/13/2005 | See Source »

It’s uncanny, really, how well these two figures match up. Physical similarities aside (both are corpulent little beasts, Louis being known for his portliness and Dan weighing in at a whopping 69 pounds), their behaviors could not be more alike. Louis XVI is known as a foppish king, decked out in his powdered wig and walking stick; Handsome Dan is no less a vain show dog, chosen expressly for his ability to strut in front of a band and tear up a Crimson blanket. Both are the meaningless figureheads of their respective institutions, all bark...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin, | Title: A Tail of Two Cities | 5/13/2005 | See Source »

Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco is likely to be chosen to be the new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the powerful Vatican post held for 24 years by the man who last month became Pope Benedict XVI, several well-placed Vatican sources have told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Said To Be Tapped as Vatican's Doctrinal Enforcer | 5/10/2005 | See Source »

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