"Imperious Meets Bulkhead"

The other day I commented on Cardinal Levada blowing a .163 when pulled over for erratic driving in Hawaii in a 2015 incident, and I speculated that this could reflect a problem of long standing. A visitor who was at least familiar with figures at that level in the Church commented,

Once saw Levada knocked silly on a TWA flight back to Rome. Imperious meets bulkhead.

Since TWA ended its existence in 2001, this would date the episode here to Levada's time as Archbishop of San Francisco, but I suspect his BAC would have been similar to what he blew in Hawaii.

Wikipedia says Levada is a conservative, but I'm more and more of the view that liberals vs conservatives in AmChurch are pretty much a good guy-bad guy ploy. A better characterization of Levada might be this one:

So, exactly what sort of work did Bp Lopes have to do when he became Levada's secretary in 2005? Indeed, he must have established his trustworthiness for handling confidential issues well before then.