Levada was a big liberal. That was a way to isolate him. He did nothing in that post. At that time there was a fear that coming down too hard on liberal abusive priests would be viewed as political retribution. The reality was that the biggest offenders in the 'protection' racket were these sordid liberals of the Mahoney and Weakland variety. Its funny how you seem to reserve all your outrage for the conservatives who had very little to do with the child abuse scandal. At that time the whole leadership in the american church with few exceptions was liberal from coast to coast. Read the Mahoney files. Case after case of self-indulgent liberal priests whining 'woops they did it again'.