Subject: Independent Review Board

• House of the Accused

  When priests within the Salesian order based in San Francisco were accused of sex abuse, the leaders chose to keep quiet.

  January 4, 2006

• Blind Eye Unto the Holy See

  Pope Benedict XVI named him Roman Catholicism's top doctrinal watchdog -- even though, as San Francisco archbishop, William J. Levada resolutely looked away from sex-abuse complaints against a renowned priest and legal scholar

  July 13, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, February 9, 2005

  February 9, 2005

• Zipped Up

  S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  January 19, 2005

• Nailed?

  Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

  June 25, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of April 2, 2003

  April 2, 2003