T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Patrick Mascarella # 4700.0139

IDENTIFICATION: [1942- ] Pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church on LSU's campus

INTERVIEWER: Karla Woggon

PROJECT: LSU History -- Religion Series

DATE: May 26, 1992 FOCUS DATES: 1980-1992

ABSTRACT:

educational background; reasons for becoming a priest; appointment to Christ the King; Claretians at Christ the King (1960s - 1980); Claretians' following; controversy over Father Charles Curran's lecture at Christ the King (Curran advocated use of birth control and supported abortion rights.); removing and replacing Claretians; exodus of parishioners; Father Richard Green as pastor of Christ the King; disintegration of Christ the King; Bishop Ott reclaiming Christ the King as diocesan territory; building student community; Faith, Peace and Justice Committee; Christ the King Staff in 1992; refusal of faculty to return; social justice programs; department of religious studies; relationship between Christ the King and the university; reaction to Holocaust advertisement; counseling students; evangelical Christians recruiting Catholics; evangelizing aspect of Catholic church

TAPES: T 193 CASSETTE TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hr. 30 min.

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT/INDEX: 67/7

RESTRICTIONS: none