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...Angeles, the fathers sometimes make wry mention of the C.C.C.-the Cardinal's Carpet Club of parish priests who have incurred the wrath of James Francis Mclntyre, 78, the tough-willed, conservative Roman Catholic archbishop. Last week a leading member of the club, the Rev. John Coffield, 50, pastor of Ascension Church, announced that after 23 years of service in the archdiocese, he was going into voluntary "exile" to work in Chicago. His reason was the same one that impelled young Father William Du Bay eight months ago to call for the cardinal's removal from office: Mclntyre...
...Buddhist monk could use self-cremation as the strongest form of protest," said Coffield in a farewell address to members of his former parishes. "I go into self-imposed exile as the strongest protest I can make. Emotionally, this is a tearing experience: on the one hand, not to feel in union with my cardinal whom I admire and love in so many ways; on the other hand, not to be permitted what I know Christ wants me so urgently to do-to be at the heart of the pain and suffering of the modern...
Unwanted Vacation. Unlike Du Bay, a lowly parish assistant, Coffield is widely respected in Los Angeles as a longtime pastor learned in modern Catholic theology and devoted to youth work and urban renewal. Last May he began to preach against Proposition 14, a referendum to void state laws against racial discrimination in housing by establishing the "absolute discretion" of any property holder to "decline to sell, lease or rent" to anyone. About the same time, Coffield invited a San Francisco Biblical scholar to speak to a group of priests. Weeks later, the cardinal told him that the invitation violated canon...
...emblem suggested by Bernard Frank for Henry Wallace [TIME, Jan. 19] seems to be a natural, inasmuch as HAW in a farmer's language means a left turn. . . . CARROLL D. COFFIELD Cleveland, Ohio
...elections of officers for the spring term Tuesday night, the Harvard Liberal Union chose Ernest Left '47 of Adams House as president, and Thomas H. Canifield '48 as vice-president. Eli J. Sagan '48 of Lowell and Kenneth J. Coffield '48 of Adams were picked as treasurer and secretary, respectively, while Edward M. Davidson of Adams won the position of member-at-large...