Mahony Names Layman to Run Catholic Schools
Archbishop Roger M. Mahony has appointed a layman as superintendent of the 101,000-student Catholic school system of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, a post that has always been held by a priest.
Jerome R. Porath, who presently has a similar post with the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., will succeed Msgr. Aidan M. Carroll, whose five-year term is ending, on Sept. 1. Since becoming archbishop of Los Angeles in 1985, Mahony often has hired lay Catholics to fill administrative posts traditionally held by priests, partly to free more priests for church work.
The Los Angeles Archdiocese has 56 high schools and 233 elementary schools in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties--the fourth largest Catholic school system in the nation.
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