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...Orleans last week, another foe of segregation got a fiery reminder that not all Southerners are willing to wrestle with their prejudices. An eight-foot, gasoline-soaked wooden cross was ignited before the residence of Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and sinful," allowed his diocesan newspaper to talk of excommunication for Catholics who block his policy of church and school integration. One organization of segregationist Catholic laymen is appealing to Rome after having been forced by the archbishop to disband...
...Orleans, Emile F. Wagner Jr., president of the Association of Catholic Laymen, organized to oppose integration, announced that under "dire threat of ex communication" from Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel the 30 directors of the association were halting their activities. They plan to send an appeal to Rome, said Wagner: "We are greatly alarmed at the casual way the matter of excommunication and mortal sin has been bandied about, and we greatly fear this has caused great confusion among Catholics...
...morality, has been the only church in the South to take open steps to enforce its position. But many Catholic priests, like Protestant ministers, prefer to move slowly, and Southern Catholics are not all taking kindly to their church's position. In New Orleans, where Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel has threatened to invoke the extreme power of excommunication to stem Catholic opposition to integration, newspaper ads appeared recently to announce a state-chartered Association of Catholic Laymen (annual dues, $1 or more), organized to fight the strong integrationism of the church. Mississippi's Presbyterian Synod has directly challenged...
...masses in all churches throughout the archdiocese, the Roman Catholics of New Orleans listened to a pastoral letter that may prove to be a milestone in the school history of the city. "Racial segregation as such," Archbishop Rummel declared in the letter, "is morally wrong and sinful because it is a denial of the unity and solidarity of the human race as conceived by God in the creation of man in Adam and Eve." Thus did German-born Joseph Francis Rummel, sometime (1924-28) pastor in New York's Harlem, serve notice that he had every intention of desegregating...
...Orleans' 79-year-old Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, a famed enemy of segregation (three years ago he banned Jim Crow benches in New Orleans' Catholic churches), met the issue head-on but gently. Instead of cutting off the congregation from all spiritual ministrations, he merely suspended services at the mission in Jesuits Bend and reduced services at two others at nearby Belle Chasse and Myrtle Grove. In a letter addressed to the congregations, the archbishop said that the incident violated "the obligations of reverence and devotion which Catholics owe to every priest...