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PAGE 16 — The Georgia Bulletin, November 7, 1985
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James Groppi Dies Of Cancer
MILWAUKEE (NC)
— James E. Groppi,
who in the 1960s drew
national attention as
an inner-city priest
leading civil rights bat
tles in Milwaukee, died
of cancer Nov. 4. He
was 54.
Repeatedly arrested
in the late 1960s as he
led marches for deseg
regated schools, open
housing and other
racially-charged
causes in Milwaukee,
Groppi left the active
priesthood in the early
1970s.
He was formally
suspended from the
priesthood in 1976
when he married Mar
garet Rozga, a college
English teacher and
longtime colleague in
civil rights activities.
They had three
children, now aged 7,
5, and 3.
In a statement Nov. 4
Archbishop Rembert
Weakland of Milwau
kee praised Groppi’s
“most positive” con
tributions to civil
rights in the 1960s and
joined with “many in
the community exten
ding sympathies to
Peg Groppi and the
Groppi family.”
“He spoke out for
human rights at a time
when that voice was
most needed, and he
also acted according to
those inmost convic
tions,” the archbishop
said.
He added that Grop
pi’s departure from the
priesthood and some
statements he made
after that “left some
wounds in the Catholic
community,” but he
hoped that “with his
death some of these
hurts, too, can be
buried and forgotten,
so that his positive con
tributions will not be
lost.”
In 1965 Father Grop
pi, then a 34-year-old
curate, was first ar
rested for a civil rights
sit-in. Part of an inter-
faith coalition of
Milwaukee clergymen
and black leaders, he
and 10 others were ar
rested for forming a
human chain to block
construction of a new
inner-city public
school which they said
was being built to
perpetuate racial
segregation in the city.
Archbishop William
E. Cousins told re
porters, “He has a lot
of guts and is doing
things maybe others of
us don't have the
courage to do.
“We can’t avoid ad
miring the dedication
of the man,” the arch
bishop added. He
withstood pressures on
the archdiocese to
discipline the young
priest, a stance he
maintained over the
ensuing years as
Father Groppi became
a national symbol of
Catholic activism in
the civil rights move
ment.
It was in the summer
of 1967 that Father
Groppi’s name be
came a household
word. As adviser to the
Milwaukee Youth
Council of the National
Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored
People, he founded
Freedom House as a
center for civil rights
work in the city and led
in a wide range of civil
rights activities.
Beginning in late
August and continuing
through September, he
led nightly demonstra
tions for open housing
and used the inner-city
St. Boniface Parish,
where he was station
ed, as a staging ground
for the marches and
rallies.
ON THE LINE — New Orleans
Archbishop Philip M. Hannan,
third from left, helps out on a
sandbag line in an effort to shore
up a broken levee in New Orleans.
Four days of high winds from
Hurricane Juan brought water
from the Gulf of Mexico, area
marshes and lakes into residen
tial areas, flooding homes and
displacing thousands of families.
The 72-year-cld archbishop stayed
most of the night working the line
and assisting flood victims. (NC
photo by Frank Methe)
Cardinal Casaroli Leaves Hospital
NEW YORK (NC)-Car
dinal Agostino Casaroli,
Vatican secretary of state,
was released from Cabrini
Medical Center in New
York Nov. 2 after an opera
tion nine days earlier for
the removal of his spleen.
An announcement by the
hospital said the cardinal
had made a “speedy
recovery” from the Oct. 24
operation.
On his release Cardinal
Casaroli returned to the Ho
ly See’s mission to the
United Nations to re
cuperate. He was staying
at the mission when he fell
coming down steps Oct. 23
and injured his spleen.
Msgr. Joseph DeAndrea,
a mission attache, said
Nov. 4 that the cardinal was
expected to return to Rome
Nov. 7 or 8. While remain
ing in New York the car
dinal was resuming normal
activities and working on
documents and mail. Msgr.
DeAndrea said.
He said Cardinal Casaroli
took a walk in the park Nov.
3, and was celebrating daily
Mass in the mission chapel.
The mission is located on
Manhattan’s East Side,
near Central Park.
Among Cardinal Casa-
roli's visitors, the hospital
said, was Mayor Edward
Koch of New York, who
Oct. 31 gave the cardinal an
autographed copy of his
book “Mayor."
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