Word: rummel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-hitting drive of New Orleans' Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel against racial segregation has petered out under pressure from laymen and private opposition from many of the clergy, and the desegregation that the archbishop planned for New Orleans parochial schools has been indefinitely postponed...
...practicing Roman Catholic, I must say that I have nothing but contempt for those ungracious, unsympathetic remarks made by a Vatican spokesman against Archbishop Rummel's views on integrating whites and Negroes (Aug. 19). What New Orleans...
Archbishop Rummel has blinded himself to is the difference between the order of essences and the order of existence. In other words, a moral decree from His Excellency's dais is one thing and. practicing the decree in a classroom of hostile races is another thing...
...churchman in the U.S. South has fought more consistently for integrating whites and Negroes in the churches and eventually in the schools than New Orleans' 80-year-old Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel (TIME. Oct. 24, 1955 et seq.), onetime pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in New York's Harlem. Last week some of his own segregation-minded flock went over his head to the Pope to protest against Rummel's "strange new doctrine." In a letter to Pius XII, the Association of Catholic Laymen of New Orleans asked the Pope to stop Rummel from taking "further...
Archbishop Rummel declined to comment. But in Rome a Vatican spokesman quickly slapped down the letter as "a grave error." Apart from the fact that the New Orleans group committed a breach of discipline in making public an appeal over the authority of their archbishop, they should have known that the Holy See is unalterably opposed to all forms of racial discrimination and that it has interpreted segregation as discrimination. "It is utterly disquieting," said a member of the Holy Office, "that there should be Catholics so ignorant of Christian doctrine and fundamentals. The only charitable view one can place...