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...Augustine F. Hickey will retire Sunday as pastor of St. Paul's Church after 40 years at the parish. The Church is on Bow St. across from Adams House...
Monsignor Hickey, also the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Boston, will be replaced by the Rev. Joseph I. Collins, who will take over his parish duties. Farther Collins, advisor to the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Society, will assume the title of administrator...
...Roman Catholic rectories of Los Angeles, the fathers sometimes make wry mention of the C.C.C.-the Cardinal's Carpet Club of parish priests who have incurred the wrath of James Francis Mclntyre, 78, the tough-willed, conservative Roman Catholic archbishop. Last week a leading member of the club, the Rev. John Coffield, 50, pastor of Ascension Church, announced that after 23 years of service in the archdiocese, he was going into voluntary "exile" to work in Chicago. His reason was the same one that impelled young Father William Du Bay eight months ago to call for the cardinal...
Unwanted Vacation. Unlike Du Bay, a lowly parish assistant, Coffield is widely respected in Los Angeles as a longtime pastor learned in modern Catholic theology and devoted to youth work and urban renewal. Last May he began to preach against Proposition 14, a referendum to void state laws against racial discrimination in housing by establishing the "absolute discretion" of any property holder to "decline to sell, lease or rent" to anyone. About the same time, Coffield invited a San Francisco Biblical scholar to speak to a group of priests. Weeks later, the cardinal told him that the invitation violated canon...
...every major California church leader except Mclntyre, but had been approved by two-thirds of the voters. Convinced that his cardinal's silence was wrong, Coffield asked for a three-year leave of absence from the archdiocese.* In Chicago he will work in a South Side Negro parish, study psychology at the University of Chicago...