CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 25, 1989
The Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese will hold public funeral services over three days for Cardinal Timothy Manning, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles who died Friday. All services will be held at St. Vibiana's Cathedral at 2nd and Main streets downtown. The cathedral is where Manning lived during his 15 years as archbishop. Manning's body will lie in state Tuesday evening and most of Wednesday. St. Vibiana will open at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. Formal liturgical reception of Manning's body will begin at 7:30, followed by Solemn Vespers.
OPINION
June 16, 1996
If the Los Angeles Conservancy doesn't speak up in the name of historic preservation, just who will? Not the mayor or the City Council, this is certainly clear. As a native Angeleno too young to have ever seen anything but photographs of the old Bunker Hill site, I have often wondered how so many wonderful buildings could be so easily erased. The St. Vibiana's Cathedral issue makes it all too clear; no one at City Hall really cares. It's a nonissue for the mayor and the council. L.A. Conservancy leaders have every right to ask the tough questions; they represent the only preservation voice in this city of very lost angels.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 21, 1997 | LARRY GORDON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The former spiritual headquarters of Roman Catholicism in Los Angeles could be reborn as a hotel banquet hall, a music school, an ethnic museum, a senior housing complex, an international trade showroom, an office for federal immigration officials or an interfaith chapel. Those proposals for the future of the now-closed St. Vibiana's Cathedral were unveiled Thursday in a report and public exhibit by the Los Angeles Conservancy and USC's School of Architecture.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 5, 1996
Another step toward possible demolition of St. Vibiana's Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles was taken Tuesday when city inspectors red-tagged the entire 120-year-old landmark, declaring it an extreme hazard because of seismic damage, a Roman Catholic archdiocese spokesman said. The adjacent bell tower was red-tagged last week. The archdiocese has closed the cathedral at 2nd and Main streets to the public for a year.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 15, 1987 | CATHLEEN DECKER, Times Staff Writer
A city-owned downtown warehouse will be opened to hundreds of Skid Row homeless during the September visit of Pope John Paul II, officials said Friday, easing concerns that the men would be forced onto the streets by security restrictions on the Union Rescue Mission. Because the Pope is staying overnight Sept. 15 and 16 at St. Vibiana's Cathedral next door to the Main Street mission, security officials ordered that transients be barred from eating and sleeping at the building during the visit.
OPINION
June 9, 1996
Re "Battle Over Cathedral's Fate Intensifies," June 4: What an irony that a bishop and cardinal of a church whose tradition has preserved art treasures for almost 2,000 years should be placed in the position of opposing people whose raison d' etre is the preservation and conservation of historical monuments. And yet, in this distinction there possibly lies the tension concerning the future of St. Vibiana's Cathedral. Many values accrue in the preservation of a monument, but time marches on and the Catholic community needs more than a monument.