Word: rummel
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Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans excommunicated three Roman Catholics who opposed his decision to desegregate the city's Roman Catholic schools. Asked in 1962 by Martin Luther King to join in a prayer vigil at Albany, Ga., 75 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic clergymen and laymen submitted to arrest and jail for praying on behalf of desegregation. In 1963, more than 200 clergymen were arrested for taking part in picket lines and demonstrations. Hundreds of clergymen joined the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
...with not only the largest (592,000) Catholic population, but also with some of the South's most bitter racial disputes. In 1955, white Catholics refused to attend a Louisiana church to which a Negro priest had been assigned. Three years ago, when the late Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel ordered parochial schools integrated, Catholics protested so vehemently that three, including Political Boss Leander Perez, were excommunicated. One of the three, Mrs. Bernard J. Gaillot, last week called Bishop Perry's appointment "another reason why God will destroy the Vatican...
...them dentists. Harold Perry entered St. Augustine's Divine Word Seminary in Mississippi at 13, was ordained in 1944, and spent 14 years as a parish priest. Appointed rector of the seminary in 1958, he worked for better race relations, caught the eye of Archbishop John P. Cody, Rummel's successor in New Orleans and now archbishop of Chicago. Cody last week joined Archbishop Hannan in announcing the appointment of his protege...
...Cody was transferred to New Orleans as coadjutor to ailing Archbishop Joseph Rummel, who died last year, and smoothly accomplished the integration of the largest Catholic school system in the Deep South. Cody also launched another mammoth building program-$34 million invested so far, with $28 million more projected for new high schools. Protestant and Jewish leaders respect him as an ecumenical friend; he helped organize New Orleans' "Operation Understanding," in which city churches are opened for tours by men of other faiths. Cody has been a quiet but effective witness for civil rights-the biggest social problem...
...Rummel in New Orleans, the church traditionally supports, often actively, the essential dignity...