Yours in Christ

This comes from the LA Times, via Bitch PhD:

In 1994, then-Archbishop of Portland William Levada offered a simple answer for why the archdiocese shouldn't have been ordered to pay the costs of raising a child fathered by a church worker at a Portland, Ore., parish. In her relationship with Arturo Uribe, then a seminarian and now a Whittier priest, the child's mother had engaged "in unprotected intercourse … when [she] should have known that could result in pregnancy," the church maintained in its answer to the lawsuit.

Levada was recently named prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, replacing Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

When I was an undergraduate at St. Louis University, the archbishop back then was John Cardinal Carberry, who we thought at the time was pretty conservative. He also had a serious mary dependency. For example, I remember one Easter homily which focused entirely on Mary's suffering at the foot of the Cross. (Hello? Up here!) He would always sign his letters to the parishes, "Yours in Mary." The Jesuits ate it up. "Hey! Yours in Mary!"