Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter ripped down this racial bar. He announced that Negro children could attend any diocesan school within their parishes. More than 700 white Catholic parents banded together to protest the seating of Negroes next to their children. They knocked at the Archbishop's door; he would not see them. They threatened court action; they would hire a lawyer and ask for an injunction against the Archbishop...
This week the protesters got a shock. Archbishop Ritter, a mild but positive man, gave them a warning in a pastoral letter, read at all Masses throughout his archdiocese. If they carried through their threat of action against the Church, he said, they would be open to the gravest penalty the Church can exercise-excommunication. "Obedience to ecclesiastical authority, said his letter, was a cardinal principle of their faith. So, he reminded them, was "the equality of every soul before Almighty...
Last week the Santa Fe board urged a compromise: since high-school classes are still being held in the church-owned building, let nuns continue teaching there, but hire new lay teachers for the grade school. The Catholic Archbishop of New Mexico, the Most Rev. Edwin V. Byrne, took a further conciliatory step. At the state school board's request, he instructed all 128 nuns teaching in public schools throughout New Mexico to cease religious instruction during school hours, and to take down crucifixes. But Dixon's Protestants said they would not be satisfied until there were...
...Willa Gather fictionized his life in Death Comes for the Archbishop...
...Saints. When, under Catherine the Great, Moscow was ridden by a frightful plague (1771) and a thousand people died each day, the Archbishop of Moscow forbade, for hygienic reasons, the kissing of icons; an outraged mob killed him. When in 1812 Napoleon marched on the city, the Governor General of Moscow issued a communiqué to the people which was a typical mixture of civic concern and religious fervor: "Thank God! All is well in Moscow. . . . Bread prices have not risen and meat prices have gone down. . . . Our protectors are, before the Lord His Holy Mother and all the saints...