Catholic Howls

Louisiana's white Roman Catholics were also up in arms against the idea of mixing with Negro Roman Catholics. At Jesuits Bend they sent away their new priest because he is a Negro (TIME, Oct. 24). At Erath some of them beat up a woman because they thought she was going to teach white and Negro children the catechism at the same time. Last week another rebellion erupted at New Orleans' high-ranking, 109-year-old Jesuit High School.

Alarmed over rumors that the school might desegregate, the Blue Jay Parents' Club passed a resolution denouncing any such move. Reason: "Because Negro boys, taken as a group, are not as advanced educationally and because of the disparity that exists between the races in the area of health, morality and culture." The Rev. Claude J. Stallworth, principal of the school, promptly condemned the resolution as representative of "a movement which is as unAmerican, un-Catholic and un-Christian as Nazism, Fascism, Ku Klux Klanism or Communism." And besides, he said, he knew of no plans to integrate Jesuit High.

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