V alerie Schmalz at Ignatius Insight reports:

The chief administrative officer of San Francisco’s Catholic Charities is an openly gay man who has a daughter he  adopted four years ago with his homosexual partner.

That fact summarizes the challenge confronting the new archbishop of San Francisco, George Niederauer, in the face of the burgeoning controversy over Catholic Charities’ adoption placements with homosexual couples.

The controversy was brought to the boiling point by a March 9th directive from Archbishop William Levada, former archbishop of San Francisco and now prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith. Levada acknowledged that children had been placed with homosexual parents under his watch, and said it could no longer occur….

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…..Dr. Glenn Motola, to his second-in-command as director of programs and services. Motola was even quoted and described favorably as a gay adoptive father in the archdiocesan newspaper, Catholic San Francisco, in a December 3, 2004, article written by the public relations person for Catholic Charities. Motola is listed on several websites as a gay father, as well as in the December 6, 2005, issue of the alternative gay newspaper, The Advocate. According to the Advocate article, San Francisco Catholic Charities also includes at least four openly gay board members

An interesting situation, this. One in which Archbishop Levada is called to be in judgment on a situation that took shape under his own watch, since we can presume he might have had a hint of who the leadership of Catholic Charities was while he was, you know, Archbishop of San Francisco.