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...garden of the archbishop's residence in New Orleans, a group of Roman Catholic women chatted and fingered their rosaries, waiting for the Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, to lead them on a Holy Week pilgrimage of prayer to the city's shrines. They studiously tried to ignore women pickets protesting the archbishop's excommunication the day before of three Roman Catholics who had opposed his decision to desegregate the city's Catholic schools...
...admit that you know it's God's law to segregate. Don't listen to Satan, listen to God." Startled, Rummel said nothing, and Mrs. Gaillot was led away by some of the women pilgrims. "May God have mercy on you!" she said to the archbishop as she rose from her knees...
Profession & Practice. That brief encounter between a Catholic woman and her archbishop expressed a profound turn of events in the South: the Catholic Church is finally resolving the contradiction between its profession and its practice in racial segregation. It is unmistakable church doctrine that segregation, in schools and churches, is against the law of God. Yet most Catholic priests and laymen, like Southerners of all faiths, have been brought up to believe in segregation...
...decision. Born in Baden, Germany, Rummel grew up in the Gemiitlichkeit atmosphere of Manhattan's Yorkville district, and served in a number of New York City parishes, including one in Harlem, after his ordination in 1902. Named Bishop of Omaha in 1928, Rummel seven years later was appointed Archbishop of New Orleans, which boasts the largest Roman Catholic population (654,000) of any city in the Deep South...
...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, who recently returned to New Orleans from a visit with Pope John...