This month marks the 80th anniversary of the appointment of an important figure in the local Catholic church, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel. A native of Baden, Germany, Rummel came to America ...

This month marks the 85th anniversary of Joseph Francis Rummel’s appointment as Archbishop of New Orleans. His 29-year tenure is the longest in the history of the local archdiocese.

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the appointment of an important figure in the local Catholic church, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel. A native of Baden, Germany, Rummel came to America ...

In the garden of the archbishop's residence in New Orleans, a group of Roman Catholic women chatted and fingered their rosaries, waiting for the Most Reverend Joseph Francis Rummel, 85, to lead ...

Recent discussions of renaming city streets have overlooked two people important to New Orleans. In the mid-1950s, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, a native of Germany, pointed out the moral ...

Last week Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha was appointed Archbishop of New Orleans, succeeding the late Most Rev. John William Shaw. Like many another member of the Western hierarchy, ...