Mahony era ends

n recent weeks, the Sunday morning masses celebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony at the downtown cathedral have drawn larger-than-usual crowds, heavily populated by the poor and undocumented of Los Angeles. Tony Castro in the Daily News..

Those two constituencies, after all, make up the centerpiece of his quarter-century legacy as the leader of the Los Angeles Archdiocese - a post he will officially turn over Sunday as his 75th birthday forces his retirement.

In those years, the archbishop marched with Cesar Ch vez, championed immigrant rights and called for changes in the country's immigration policy.