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Article: Mahony faxes positive spin: cardinal assures priests of consultation; California clerics fingerprinted. (Nation).
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 25, 2002
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Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, in an Oct. 8 fax to his priests, has assured them he "listened deeply to their concerns" regarding the closing of archdiocesan ministries to prisons, campuses and ethnic communities during the previous day's annual presbyteral meeting.
But, said Mahony, despite pleas from some priests for a moratorium on the cutbacks until there had been broader consultation, "the funds simply are not there to return to `business as usual.'"
In a fax that put a positive spin on an event that drew, at best, mixed reviews from the priests (NCR Oct. 18), the cardinal wondered if "it was God's Providence that the archdiocesan management ...