Word: catechismic
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Died. The Most Rev. Jules Benjamin Jeanmard, 77, first Louisianian to become a Roman Catholic bishop (1918). who took a solid pro-integration stand in November 1955 by excommunicating two women in his Lafayette. La. diocese for assaulting a woman teacher of an integrated catechism class, lifted the ban a...
Louisiana's white Roman Catholics were also up in arms against the idea of mixing with Negro Roman Catholics. At Jesuits Bend they sent away their new priest because he is a Negro (TIME, Oct. 24). At Erath some of them beat up a woman because they thought she...
There were mass meetings among Erath's citizens, almost all of them parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church. A group went to complain to Bishop Jules Benjamin Jeanmard of Lafayette, La. Negro children were warned to stay away from catechism classes. Finally Father Labbe suspended the classes...
One morning Mrs. Lula V. Ortemon, one of the catechism teachers, started out to church. Near the church door she found a group waiting. At least three women began pummeling her with their fists and chopping at her with their shoe heels. Mrs. Ortemon filed assault-and-battery charges against...
Last week the excommunication was lifted; those to whom it had applied, it was announced, had made reparation. The congregation received the bishop's hopeful blessing, and the catechism class was declared reopened. But Pastor Labbe, though disclaiming any plans for integration beyond the classroom, was not sure peace had...