LEVADA, CATHOLIC DOCTRINE ENFORCER, PARTICIPATED IN PRAYER SERVICE WITH PAGAN PRAYERLevada who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to be the enforcer of Catholic doctrine according to this article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7845420/ didn't authorize the posting of pagan prayer on a Catholic Diocesan website, but "he participated in a prayer service in which the prayer was used" according to this second article below from http://www.spiritdaily.com/levadadenial.htm  See article below: SPOKESMAN: LEVADA DID NOT AUTHORIZE PAGAN PRAYER FOR DIOCESAN WEBSITE

A spokesman for Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco denied that the prelate -- soon to head the Vatican's powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- okayed an ecumenical prayer that included an invocation to nature spirits.

Asked if the archbishop had authorized the prayer, which called upon the spirits of the north, south, east, and west, in a callback to paganism, the spokesman, Maurice Healy, said only that "he participated in a prayer service in which the prayer was used."

Asked if the Archbishop had then allowed the prayer to be posted on the archdiocesan website -- where its presence evoked an uproar -- Healy denied that the Archbishop, who is soon to assume Pope Benedict XVI's old position, authorized the posting. "No," he flatly responded.

The New Age-style supplication was on an obscure part of the diocesan website and was meant, said Healy, as a prayer of healing in the wake of the sex-abuse crisis, which has crossed religious denominations.

The inquiry was made of the diocesan office after an e-mailer asserted that when she had pressed Healy on the matter, the conversation had turned confrontational. Others have reported similar e-mails from the spokesman. "He told me that Archbishop Levada himself chose this prayer for an Apology Ceremony provided for Catholic victims of clerical sex abuse," said the one protester. "Healy told me that the Archbishop felt that Blessing Our Oneness would be a good 'ecumenical prayer,' for many of the victims were fallen-away Catholics."