Roll the Credits Hollywoods Cardinal Mahony Bowing Out, by Deacon Greg Tandra, Beliefnet, January 21, 2010

Roll the Credits: Hollywood's Cardinal Mahony Bowing Out?

By Deacon Greg Tandra
Beliefnet
January 21, 2010

http://blog.beliefnet.com/deaconsbench/2010/01/roll-the-credits-hollywoods-cardinal-mahony-bowing-out.html

LOS ANGELES (CA) -- So says the usually reliable Thomas "American Papist" Peters:

I am hearing, on reliable authority, that the Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles, Roger Mahony, has approved a coadjutor bishop recently selected for him by the Holy See. This news - and the name - will be publicly announced "soon."

Cardinal Roger Mahony

This new bishop, once announced and appointed, will automatically succeed Mahony as the Archbishop of Los Angeles as soon as Mahony retires, presumably before Mahony's mandatory retirement at age 75 (February 27, 2011). Mahony has said that the current class of seminarians will be the last one he personally ordains.

Some of the faculty at St. John's Seminary - where new priests for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are trained - have expressed concern that the new coadjutor bishop will lean more "conservative" than his predecessor, and some have even threatened to resign or retire if this turns out to be the case.

Stay tuned.