ROFLMAO!!! Here's the story behind the "condemnation" from one of Mahony's staff.
In 1996, H.E. decided that he wanted to knock down historic St. Vibiana Cathedral, built in 1876. Maintaining that he could not afford the estimate ten million required to retrofit the cathedral against inevitable future earthquakes, he said that private donors had agreed to pay the supposed $40,000,000 needed to build a brand new one. In the months that followed, he was able to get the City Council to lift the historic designation from St. Vibiana's (something never done to a building once so marked before), and attempted to knock the old structure down on a weekend. The L.A. Conservancy was able to get a restraining order on his men before they could do more than remove the cupola. Meanwhile, at the same time the City Council was doing H.E's bidding in regard to St. Vibiana, they forbade the rabbi in charge to knock down the Breed Street Schul, an historic synagogue. Maintaining his continuing desire to get rid of St. Vibiana, H.E. nevertheless chose a nearby site to build the new cathedral, since he could not use the old one. The latter he wished to sell to the highest bidder. In the meantime, the Conservancy's survey revealed that retrofitting the old cathedral would cost a mere 4.5 million, even as the Archiocese's estimates for the cost of the new cathedral rose to $50 million. Even the sources of that money were called into doubt, as H.E.'s spokesperson Fr. Gregory Coiro, O.F.M. reveled that any money realised from the sale of the old site woul be used toward the new building.
Meanwhile, the fate of St. Vibiana, the virgin-martyr who had given her name to the Cathedral, remained in doubt. Her body, a gift of Pope Pius IX to the then frontier-town of Los Angeles, had been given with the strict proviso that a cathedral be built to house her relics, and bear her name. In deciding to name his new cathedral "Our Lady of the Angels," the Cardinal in essence removed her as patroness of the Archdiocese. She was removed from the old cathedral building, and interred in an unmarked niche in the chapel of the Archbishops at New Calvary Cemetery Mausoleum; perhaps she is the new patroness of underpaid cemetery workers. In any case, she is not receiving her due veneration here, and one might legitimately ask if she will soon be returned to Rome, since Los Angeles has broken her side of the bargain with Pius IX.
The more you look the worse it gets.