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...demands segregation," says New 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...
...Orleans, where 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...
...tiny-minority argument is valid in Georgia and South Carolina, what of heavily Roman Catholic New Orleans, where Catholics have wound up in the same dilemma of spirit v. reality? New Orleans' ailing, octogenarian Archbishop Joseph Rummel spoke out sharply and clearly against school segregation as early as 1954. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament recently advertised in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Forced segregation violates both justice and charity." But when the school crisis came last fall, the archbishop postponed parochial school desegregation until public school integration "has been effectively carried out." The wholly temporal reason was that...
...Offensive. Again, when New Orleans' Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel declared that segregation was sinful, Leander Perez breathed defiance. Himself a Catholic, he accused the Catholic hierarchy of "turning against their own people." The New Orleans parochial schools remained segregated, and fortnight ago, as Archbishop Rummel lay ill in a hospital after a fall, Perez hinted that it was all because of his stand against segregation...
...Board pamphlet, "Baptists, Roman Catholics and Religious Freedom," in new demand. Published several years ago, the pamphlet has had modest circulation; this summer, requests for 300,000 copies have already rolled in. The religious issue is even being played with a special Southern twist. When New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel issued a pastoral letter deploring the resistance to public school integration, there was an uproar from the fringe. Snarled Louisiana's arch-segregationist Leander H. Perez, himself a Catholic: "The letter can only be interpreted as the Catholic hierarchy's endorsement of Kennedy for President...