William Levada Quotations

By and large the people in our parishes, ... the priests tell me they think that the steps the Bishops of this country have taken have done a great job and are meeting the crisis. We're doing a great educational outreach program trying to prevent abuse by clergy or anyone else.

We profoundly feel this task of great responsibility.

It was an idea that just kept coming back to me, ... It's really hard to quantify. I guess God had a hand in it. But it's not as if you hear a voice. It's through circumstances. I thought about it enough over time that I felt I better check this out.

This issue has caused some divisions among the people in the church during the last election,

I wasn't filled with dread when I came here but I knew there were problems I would have to address, ... I knew I was going into a very concentrated center that had some hot-button issues.

The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

It's not surprising that there's been no response