A church leader would have a good following of people
in a
particular town or
city, and some other teacher would arrive
in town, and begin to
teach Scripture
in a different way or with a different emphasis.
With
particular pertinence to the present discussion, Levada, for all his considerable gifts, did not distinguish himself
in his
teaching, and his seeing to it that others
taught, the Church's moral doctrine during his ten years as archbishop of San Francisco, a
city commonly called the gay capital of the world.