Scope and Content DuBay did not stand alone in the struggle to engage the Catholic church in the civil rights movement; two organizations, the Catholic Human Relations Council (CHRC) and Catholics United for Racial Equality (CURC), also called upon the Los Angeles Archdiocese to take a more proactive stand in racial matters. Like DuBay, the organizations often clashed with Cardinal McIntyre, who believed that their messages were too controversial and refused to grant them the official blessing of the church....

Scope and Content Among the most controversial subjects of DuBay's book The Human Church involved the formation of unions for priests. According to DuBay, unionization would allow members of the clergy to achieve four principal goals: (1) to secure better wages; (2) to secure better working conditions; (3) to end arbitrary transfers; and (4) to institute a tenure policy which would guarantee the right to a hearing prior to suspension. Included in the files are letters and...