Children of Mary in St. Louis

In the late 1940s and '50s some Jesuits called racism a sin in their lectures at the monthly Enfant de Marie meetings. They discussed Cardinal Ritter's desegregation of the St. Louis Archdiocese Schools in 1947 and explained why he had excommunicated a few Catholics who publicly opposed the change. (from a booklet written by Patricia Rice in 2011)

To read more about how the St. Louis E de M responded to the challenges of Vatican II, click on the link to the PDF attachment.