Article: Fired pastor tip of L.A. iceberg. (Monsignor Joe Alzugaray; All Souls Parish, Alhambra, California) (Cover Story)

Turmoil over conflict-of-vestments suit

ALHAMBRA, Calif. - They still talk of the day he was with the schoolchildren in the yard and kicked the ball through the third-grade window. And how they knew he was around because the smell of his pipe smoke was in the air. How he'd removed the asbestos from one school building and, even when he knew the archdiocese was removing him as pastor, he still saw to it that the carpet was laid for the student computer room.

He understood this middle- and working-class parish, the sacrifices the parents were making to get their children into Catholic school and keep them there, and he had unified the parish into feeling the ...

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