‘In his fourth week on the job, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday made his most important appointment yet, filling his former post as chief conservator of the Catholic faith with a California archbishop who will become the highest-ranked American ever at the Vatican.

William J. Levada, who has led the San Francisco archdiocese since 1995, will boost the United States’ profile at the Vatican as head of its Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, where he worked a quarter-century ago and befriended Benedict, who began working there in 1981.’

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