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...Rummel applauded the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation in public schools, and began to nudge his reluctant flock toward accepting segregation as "morally wrong and sinful." He eliminated "whites only" pews in New Orleans' churches in 1953, and two years later shut down a church whose white parishioners objected to the assignment of a Negro priest. Yet, despite the example of Joseph Cardinal Ritter, who began to integrate Catholic education in St. Louis in 1947, Rummel made no real effort to bring his own parochial schools into compliance...
...health has long been failing: besides suffering from glaucoma, he nearly died in 1960 of pneumonia, after a fall in which he broke an arm and a leg. But now New Orleans' public schools have been integrated, in token fashion, for more than a year, and last month Rummel ordered that the city's Catholic schools, which enroll almost half of New Orleans' white students, be completely desegregated in September. Privately, many Catholics credit Rummel's stiff stand to the influence of brisk new CoAdjutor Archbishop John Patrick Cody, 54, formerly of Kan sas City...
...wife of a factory clerk and the head of a small racist outfit called Save Our Nation, Inc., she has two sons attending a Catholic high school, and holds an unshakable conviction that racial integration is a sin against God. She helped set up the picket lines around Rummel's residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with...
...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...
...himself. But there was small chance of a hearing in Rome. Both the Vatican and the apostolic delegate in Washington said they would refer her complaints right back to New Orleans' spiritual leader; and L'Osservatore Romano, quite obviously reflecting the views of the Holy See, praised Rummel's actions as "admirable...