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Rummel sent letters warning some of his segregationist parishioners against fur ther protest ; last week, as the complaints and picketing continued, he recognized that his decision to desegregate, if it was to mean anything, required stern enforcement. Along with Mrs. Gaillot, he formally excommunicated Leander Perez, 70, political boss of nearby Plaquemines Parish, and Jackson Ricau, 44, executive director of South Louisiana's Citizens Council. Although hundreds of Roman Catholics are technically excommunicated each year for such sins as marrying before a non-Catholic minister or joining the Masons, the penalty is seldom imposed these days upon specific, publicly...
...president of the college and opponent of Senator Fulbright. But to identify the social and political policy of an entire church with that of one of its more prominent members seems only comparatively less accurate than to accuse all Roman Catholics of bigotry because of the actions of a Leander Perez or a Mrs. Gaillot...
...Orleans' Mrs. B. J. Gaillot Jr., president of segregationist Save Our Nation Inc. She is a Roman Catholic, and when Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, ordered full desegregation of New Orleans parochial schools for next fall, Mrs. Gaillot responded with picketing and loud protest. She was not alone. Leander Perez, influential political boss of Plaquemines Parish and also a Catholic, suggested reprisals against the clergy: "Cut off their water. Quit giving them money to feed their fat bellies." And State Representative Rodney Buras of New Orleans proclaimed that he would fight Arch, bishop Rummel's demand for desegregation...
...Roman Catholic parochial schools have 48,000 students (compared with 93,000 in public schools), Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, eight years ago denounced segregation as "morally wrong and sinful." Last week the archdiocese announced that "all Catholic children" may now apply to all Catholic schools. Cried Political Boss Leander Perez, a segregationist and Roman Catholic: "What can the people do? They can stop putting their money in the collection plate and feeding those bishops and priests who are destroying our children...
...still simmering New Orleans, twelve Negro children entered six schools with no first-day disturbance. And there the Justice Department launched a new legal assault on Racist Leander Perez, political boss of neighboring St. Bernard parish. Last year St. Bernard set up a special school to handle white students boycotting integrated schools in New Orleans. If St. Bernard persists in this "evasive scheme,'' said the Justice Department in a suit to halt the practice, its own schools should be integrated by court order...