[BlackElk]

The persons involved in the New Orleans Archdiocese to whom you refer were then Archbishop Cody (later Cardinal Cody of Chicago) who excommunicated publicly the Catholic boss of Plaquemines Parish (County) just south of New Orleans (one Leander Perez) for his persistent public racism against blacks. Prior to his excomunication, Leander Perez, who was also a major construction contractor, was probably the largest single donor to the Archdiocese of New Orleans, usually in the form of fully completed new schools. Cody did the right thing. I believe that this happened in the 1960s.

[sinkspur]

The persons involved in the New Orleans Archdiocese to whom you refer were then Archbishop Cody (later Cardinal Cody of Chicago) who excommunicated publicly the Catholic boss of Plaquemines Parish (County) just south of New Orleans (one Leander Perez) for his persistent public racism against blacks.

I usually defer to your pre-eminent intellectual prowess, Elk, but, in this case, I must correct.

The Archbishop of New Orleans in question was Joseph Rummel, who preceded Cody. Cody was in office in New Orleans less than eight months before being promoted to Chicago, where he was linked with a local matron for several years in a simmering scandal.

[sitetest]

Dear BlackElk,

The bishop involved was Archbishop Joseph Rummel. The future Cardinal Cody was the Archbishop-Coadjutor to Archbishop Rummel. Both men signed the letters which threatened excommunication. I believe that Archbishop Rummel alone signed the excommunications of the three miscreants, on April 16, 1962.

Sainted Archbishop Rummel died in 1964.

Sinkspur - was he wrong to publicly humiliate these people??



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