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TBREA Sunday mass or other servitet=you major seminaries; wien. the TS DE wilh receive him with the ‘rever- jsnop'lays his hands upon them ‘BY ARCHBISHOP Prelate Releases Letter on tailed services at Belle Chasse and © His Apostles. Negro Priest Matter Myrtle Grove after the parishion-i “From the moment of his ordina-: rad tuned away Rev. Gerard Lew-|tion. the priest has the mis to Archbi \is, a Negro priest assigned to reach the Word of God, whether mel sud ee dia ‘not church. 4 ; ® the his countenance be white or black, threaten recalcitrant parishioners Archbishop Rummel said Wed-| yellow or brown; he has the man- in Plaquemines parish with excom- nesday it was never intended to’ date to raise souls to the dignity of - munication. Soret th parish prise with a Ne-|children of God in Baptism, whee His . y at Father Lewis was to er the hand at e shell o meeting Tuesisy i after a mass/assit in giving the parishioners @ water be dark of light; he has the joners of Our Vaay” of P Pe etaal sufficiant number of masses for|power to forgive sin to contrite Help, whose several hund dm ual) their needs. ” {hearts whether the absolving words bers balked at the a tment of| ~ Only Available Priest come from the lips of # native of a Negro priest to emit with ent of} “Father Lewis was the only Europe or of America, of Asia or es. ith mass-| available priest we had to send at{Africa; the fingers that clasp the Members of th . ___ | the time,” the archbishop said.jbread and the hands that elevate wh in of the Catholic parish “It was Father Lewis or nobody at; the chalice of wine may be white © spoke at the meeting €x- that time. And we felt that the|O colored, but that bread becomes pressed the opinion that the arch-| Wish for a mass was superior to the Body of Christ, that wine be- ishop had threatened exgommu-) any other consideration." comes the Blood of Christ when the gs nication in a letter whichfle direct- Father Meyer, in his letter Mon-|priest prone unces the sacred ne a last Sun-| day, asked parishioners to sign an j words: “This is My Body «. - = - ay. . enclosed card addressed to the This is My Blood;"" The Holy s em, 1ne archbishop Aid the letter! archbishop in which stated: which you attend is the same gac- See “8s written in spirit of con-| “In conformity with the teach-|ti ce which Christ institu ed, ciliation rather /thay to antago-! ing of the church on the dignity of wether the celebrant be .light- 4 priesthood and af dignity of skinned, but you may lose its bene- to his holy office F lof Holy, Orders, every one of them fo dis holy office as = Priest of another Christ, sharing| ‘The archbishop halted services at te priesthood of Christ and gifted . d he said fhat the parishioners’ human person I fregret the fits by unholy thoughts about “the . jma have se@h that a letter by the © enses committed in our commu- color line; whether in Holy Com- «Red Clement! Mever, S. M. pas- nity against this teaching. Hence- munion the Sacred Host is laid -torfof the church, was a threat. forth, I will accept any priest ap-)upon your tongue by a priest of Father Meyer on Monday said in pointed to give us Sunday mass| your own or of another color, it still a letter to church members that &94 other services.” remains the true Body and Blood, “we are in danger of excommuni- At Tuesday's meeting. held in the true Soul and Divinity of Christ, cation” and that “there is a grave ‘he Belle Chasse auditorium, sev- , danger that if we do not respond eral parishioners declared they did| fects in your soul by harboring col- to the archbishop’s letter of last 2t intend to sign the cards. And/or prejudices: 4 Sunday, the severest penalty of the they voted almost unanimously :to ‘priestly Dignity’ church will be meted out to all of Present @ resolution to their pas-) “From all this we see clearly 4 us.” tor reiterating their stand against| why our Holy Church has, down . Letter Made Public the appointment of a Negro pas-| through the ages, never hesitated Archbishop Rummel Wednesday; tor. to educate and train worthy men made public the letter he had pre-| _ Text of Letter -~ * of every race and nationality to the pared for the members of the con- Following is the text of Archbish-| holy priesthood, and why ‘truly gregation of Belle Chasse and the: °P Rummel’s letter to the congre-| Catholic people have accepted with H affiliated missions of Jesuit Bend gation of Belle Chasse and affiliat-| reverence and confidence the serv- and Myrtle Grove. ed missions at Jesuit Bend andlices of every priest duly. vouched Archbishop Rummel said there Myrtle Grove: for by the proper ecclesiastical au- are no threats contained in the let- ar . u in| thority. Our Catholic people know! ter, but it had, rather, the church's the spirit of charity to consider] that in the Mass and at the Com- sestimate of priesthood. prayerfully the teaching of our|munion Table, in the pulpit and in, {In the letter the archbishop said Holy Catholic Church about the dig-| the confessional, at the Baptimal: ya have no desire on intertion to] DY of every tee priest of God] font and at the bedside of the sick, appoint a Negro priest permanent- gnd the respect and confidence] it is the Sacrament of the Priest- sesame \y in your area, but we must re- which we owe to his person an that gives dignity and power ae eagceive your assurances that, if we oil M to the priegt and not the racial ex: Msind it necessary to send ‘such a Holy Mother Church selects “ee - prifst to give you the blessing’ of worthy young men of every nation, Ze NEW ORLEANS, LA. that are essential in a true priest 12/8/55 of God. 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