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Ironically, the decision to leave the church came shortly after the nuns' archantagonist, conservative James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, 83, was replaced by the more liberal Timothy J. Manning, 60, as Archbishop of Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 2). Many, even in Rome, felt that a more flexible prelate than Mclntyre could have avoided the break. When the nuns started to wear secular clothing in the fall of 1967, McIntyre barred them from teaching in archdiocesan schools. The nuns refused to take up the habit again or to modify other changes-including the elimination of compulsory daily prayer...
...intruding on borrowed time," said James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. "To be a borrower, even of time, has its attendant risks to all." With that, the crusty, 83-year-old prelate announced last week that he was resigning as Archbishop of Los Angeles, a diocese he has governed for 22 years...
...many of the troubled priests, unhappy nuns and angry minority groups in Los Angeles, Mclntyre had borrowed too much time, at too high a rate of interest. Many church members still active in his archdiocese are remarkably loyal, but a number of progressive Catholics, laity and religious alike, have simply dropped out in the six bitter years since it became apparent that their cardinal's conservatism remained untempered by the spirit of Vatican...
Until 1964, Mclntyre was hardly criticized at all. He was, in fact, best known for pushing through a massive expansion program, at one point building a new church every 66 days and a new school every 26 days to accommodate the postwar population boom. But his early life as a Wall Street broker and his career as a "brick-and-mortar man" for the church ill-fitted him for the turbulent social issues of the '60s. To the consternation of California liberals, he failed to join fellow bishops in opposing efforts to repeal the state's fair-housing...
...Mclntyre's successor is not likely to invite such confrontations. At 60, Archbishop Timothy J. Manning, appointed last year as coadjutor archbishop with right of succession, is a man curiously like Pope Paul himself, progressive in social matters, conservative in doctrine. A longtime auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, and later bishop of Fresno, County Cork-born Manning will probably be quicker than his predecessor to put into use Vatican-approved reforms such as the new Mass. If he is not likely to look kindly on avant-garde experimentation or liberal views on doctrine, he will, unlike Mclntyre, almost certainly...