The end of a great era': Bishop Ward dies at 90

The term "churchman," as noted by Msgr. Francis Weber, is one used sparingly.

"It's a title that has to be earned," the archdiocesan archivist wrote in his Encyclopedia of California's Catholic Heritage. "It cannot be conferred. It signifies a person who towers above his contemporaries, one who personifies the ideals of the Christian commitment.

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