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...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...
...black limousine flying the Union Jack swept past the colonnaded grandeur of the Piazza. San Pietro and into a Vatican courtyard. Out stepped the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England. Escorted by the black-clad Chamberlain of Cape and Sword, the Archbishop strode by colorful Swiss Guards armed with halberds and entered the papal apartments. "Your Holiness, we are making history," said the Archbishop to Pope John XXIII. For an hour, alone except for an interpreter, the two churchmen spoke of matters temporal and spiritual...
...meeting at the summit. Vatican observers said hopefully that "a first and significant step has been taken," and Pope John saw the meeting going "only as far as the threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities." He seemed relieved that the interview had been private: "I am quite...
Which Is Greatest? The Archbishop made clear his hopes for the future in a sermon delivered the night before his meeting with the Pope. Citing some lines from the Gospel According to St. Luke ("Then there arose a reasoning among them which of them should be the greatest"), the Archbishop discussed the long separation of the two churches. "The cold war was indeed a war," he said. "A strife for victory, for converts, for political power in many countries with victims and martyrdoms and cruelties and oppressions. That period is not altogether past, but it is passing...
...archbishop's most symbolic encounter, before he moved on to Beiru and Istanbul, was with Roman Catholic Monsignor Alberto Gori, Roman Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. Referring to his forthcoming meeting with the Pope, Dr Fisher told Monsignor Gori: "There are moments when I realize why divisions are transcended even while they exist." Replied the monsignor hopefully: "The ice has been broken...