Legacy
- Ritter was a friend of Lionel Hampton and Cardinal Ottaviani.
- In a gesture of ecumenism, Ritter granted his approval to the mixed marriage of a Catholic and an Episcopalian in 1964. He also authorized the first English Mass in the United States.
- Ritter, intensely dedicated to racial equality, even withheld Communion from Catholics who practiced discrimination.
- He was "dismayed" and "indignant" after the rector of Catholic University of America, Monsignor William McDonald, refused to allow certain liberal theologians to speak at the university.
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