ARCHBISHOP ROGER MAHONY
The overriding object of any institution, any organization, any bureaucracy, is twofold--to perpetuate itself and to increase its powers. Things change very little. Perhaps that is why Archbishop Mahony reminds me so strongly of Cardinal Francis Spellman in New York City.
FRED SCIFERS, Downey
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