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WHO WAS THE ARTIST WHO PAINTED THIS PHYSIOGNOMY? Let the reader dwell upon this

royal, and at the same time

physiognomy of the Most Holy Virgin. Her bearing is majestic,

maternal and accessible. Her fore head shines with a superior in

telligence; her enchanting nose has a firm outline; her well cut lips show decision; her black hair is

characteristic of a Latin Ameri can lady. Her high eyebrows serve as a frame for black, penetra

ting eyes that appear to scruti nize the deepest recesses ofthe soul

of the one gazing at her. At the same time, they reveal the gran

deur of She who is the Spouse of the Holy Ghost. Everything in the picture is well proportioned, dis playing a superior equilibrium.

The Child Jesus holds a string,

appearing to entertain himself with it so that the earnest atten

tion of the viewer will be turned

Is

nfm

to the Mediatrix ofAll Graces.

Who could have painted this masterly work of art? In what famous museum might one expect to find it.

It was painted not by a com mon artist, but by a celestial hand,

perhaps of an Angel. The artist chose as his canvas the brute rocks

of a ravine in Colombia, n<

e

town of Ipiales. The rocks uave been so deeply penetrated by the

mysterious paint that even if one scrapes or makes profound cuts in the stone, the colors and nuances remain the same.

This miraculous work of art was discovered around the middle

of the eighteenth century. It is a stupendous, permanent miracle that can be observed in Las Lajas (the rocks), the Sanctuary which contains this masterwork of the celestial artist. (See page 2.)

O^usabe For » Chrastian Civilization Volume 10, Number 2

April—June 1980

Our Lady of Las Lajas, a Permanent Miracle

Estate of Our Lady of Good Success Celebrates an Extraordinary Publishing Event: Revolution and Counter-revolution

EDITOR: John Hart ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

Thomas Bell

Eugene Kenyon Murillo Galliez

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Edward Thompson Preston Noeil

The Counter-revolution on the March CIRCULATION DIRECTOR:

Text of the Telegram of the American TFP to President Carter on Cuba

Text of the Telegram of the TFP's to John Paul II on Cuba

Gerald Campbell FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS:

London: Jules C. Ubbelohde Paris: Guy de Ridder Rome: Ronaldo Bacelli

Madrid: Jose Luis de Zayas The Marvelous and the Real

in the Formation of Children

Montreal: Michel Renaud

Sao Paulo: Jose Lucio A. Correa

Buenos Aires: Jorge M. Storni Bitter Fruits of Sex Education

Caracas: Pedro Morazzani

Santiago: Jose A. Ureta

The Ecclesiastical Magisterium on Sex Education

Montevideo: Raul de Corral

Bogota: Julio Hurtado Quito: Juan M. Montes

The Child As a Battleground

La Paz; Julio Bonilla

The Swedish Paradise: a

Shattered Myth

Picturesque and the Real in Daily Life Sister Anuarita of Bafwabaka; a

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OUR COVER; Our Lady of Las Lajas

Our Lady of Las Lajas. a Permanent Miracle The merciful predilection of the Mother of God for Latin America is

a token of the reward She has given for a herioc faith formed in the Iberian

Peninsula during 800 years of struggle against the invading Moors and which

With trepidation, she entered the darkness of the grotto, invoking the Virgin of the Rosary. Suddenly, she felt

A few days later, returning by the

someone tapping at her back, as though calling her. Frightened, she fled back

same route, she once again reached the cliffs of Las Lajas, carrying on her back her little daughter Rosa, who was deaf-mute by birth. Having become

into the storm.

very tired, Maria Mueses de Quinones

found in the souls of the Latin Ameri

can peoples a vessel in which Divine Providence willed to deposit it.

There is no nation from Mexico to

Patagonia that has failed to receive special favors from Our Lady. However, her interventions did not occur in just any manner. She presented herself with unheard of magnificence and splendor, making it clear that she came to preside

over the history of Latin America from on high.

THE HISTORY OF A PREDILECTION

As an example of this magnificence, consider how the Most Holy Virgin has

stamped her image on the imposing cliffs of the Guaitara Canyon (today

Colombian territory), thereby becoming Queen of the souls in that region and

in all adjacent lands.

The instrument that Our Lady chose to manifest her maternal solicitude for

these people was asimple Indian woman.

Everything happened in a most unex pected and marvelous way.

Maria Muese de Quinones, a des cendant of the Indian chiefs of Potosi,

was going from the town of Ipiales to her lands when she was caught in a great storm. At Las Lajas, she had to take refuge in a grotto. However, she was tormented within herself, not only

because of the uncertainties produced by the storm but also because there was a popular legend which said the devil was the lord and owner of that place.

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The image of Our Lady of Las Lajas with the Child Jesus was miraculously printed on the rock, along with Saint Dominic (left) and Saint Francis of Assisi (right).

sat down to rest — not without fear —

on a stone near the grotto.

Then the first miracle occurred. The

deaf-mute child suddenly spoke:"Mom

my, look at the mestiza who has de tached herself from the rock with a

The facts having been verified, the

neither the roaring waters nor the steep

tion of the people and the graces from Heaven continues to this day. Behold the history of the alliance between Our Lady of Las Lajas and the devotees

ness of the rocks. Rising upward with

little boy in her arms and two little

of those lands, an alliance sealed with-an

mestizos at her side!" With this ex

enormous quantity of thanksgiving slabs

clamation, Rosa slid off her mother's

that now cover the rocks adjacent to

back to climb up the stones of the grotto.

the sanctuary built in that privileged

Struck with terror, Maria took her

place.

daughter and fled from the mysterious THE SANCTUARY:"SHE

place.

There

was general^ bewilderment

among Maria's acquaintances in the small village of Potosi when she told them what had happened. Thirsting for the supernatural, the Indians listened to her, asked her many questions, and commented among themselves about the singular event.

In the meantime, Ros^ disappeared, causing her mother great concern.

Maria searched and searched, but she

INSPIRED THE PROJECT" When a traveler enters Narino (a

Colombian state bordering Ecuador), he discovers the quintessence of Colom bia. Its mountain ranges are garbed in cliffs of nuanced colors. In its blue skies,

winds play with the white clouds with out ever repeating the spectacular pat terns that they form. In its villages, its towns, and its fields where the words

was vn?ble to find her. Then she re

of eternal life uttered by Blessed Eze-

membered the episode at the grotto,

chiel Moreno Diaz still echo, one en

and returned there to look for her.

counters the defined and penetrating Catholic tonus of its people, who re

She found her daughter kneeling at the feet of the Virgin, who had be side her Saint Francis and Saint Domin

ic. No longer afraid, Maria also knelt down and venerated Our Lady.

News of the episode soon reached Potosi, and Maria's friends there began to come to

venerate the "Mestiza"

imprinted on the rock of the grotto. * * *

Shortly thereafter. Our Lady per formed a spectacular miracle which

prompted the news of the marvelous presence to spread throughout the rocky banks of the Guaitara River.

Unexpectedly, Rosa died. Her af flicted mother carried her body in her arms to the grotto in order to beg the Virgin for help. Reminding her of Rosa's solicitude in bringing her candles and flowers, she begged Our Lady to bring her back to life. In answer to her prayers, the Queen of Heaven and

Earth performed the miracle of the resurrection of the child.

Maria told her employers in the town

of Ipiales about the extraordinary event.

Moved by the news, they went with priests and distinguished persons of the town to the site of the apparition.

deepest part of the abyss, fearing

marvelous union between the venera

flect its history resplendent with gold en pages of faith and heroism. The at mosphere is rich in imponderables, making us sail, so to speak, through a singular blessing. It is as though one's soul is touching the divine, when one's fascinated eyes see — as in an explosion of splendor — one of the stone towers rising from the depths of the abyss.

It is in this setting that one finds the

sanctuary built in Konor of Our Lady of Las Lajas.

How did they manage to build such

a stupendous monument in a spot so wild and inhospitable? "...We now have to erect, for the Great Lady, a

spacious and beautiful church. But where? In the air, if I can express

myself in this way. How? With the help of Our Lady of Las Lajas. She has in spired this project.

These words were uttered in August

of 1899 by Blessed Ezechiel Moreno, at that time Bishop of Pasto, the

capital of Narino. They were sufficient to inflame the faith and daring of Colombians.

In this way, a flower of stone sprung up before the eyes, blossoming from the

the class characteristic of the harmoni

ous g'othic style, the tip of its spires places one in the perspective of infinity.'

In this place where God seems to have affixed his Signature to the crea

tion, peace and recollection reign.

The pilgrim feels this even before en tering the site where the miracle oc curred. There is a profound silence melodiously interrupted by the sounds, of water spectacularly plunging from a high rock to the torrents of the Guai tara River. Innumerable pigeons fly in circles, delighting themselves with the silver foam spreading from their feathers.

Once in a while they fly into the church, around the gothic arches, to land on the heads of the columns. Their cooing

is accompanied by the flickering of the flames of the candles and the soft

murmer issuing from the lips of those praying. Sun rays filter through the stained-glass windows multiplying their effects through the whole nave. In the background, the celestial gaze of the

Lady emanates from the stone, ab sorbing every other reality.

IN THE EYES OF THE QUEEN, THE TRUE AND AUTHENTIC LATIN AMERICA

In the course of the two thousand

years in which the Church has spread throughout the world, artists have frequently shaped the physiognomy of Our Lady according to the physiral type of the women of their time

region. This has happened in paintings, sculpture, stained-glass windows, etc.

The most ancient statues of her at

test to this fact. In the remote days of the Church, physiognomies of a Medi terranean type prevailed. As the Cathol

ic Religion spread among the Nordic peoples, blonde and blue-eyed repre sentations of Our Lady appeared.

The modelling of images according to the physiognomic type of the people that conceive them is agreeable to Our Lady. This is proved by the fact that

the Most Holy Virgin respects such a rule when She impresses her image on CRUSADE 3

between Mother and Son. Normally

American people, heeding their suppli cations, orienting and commanding

their images present them gazing at each

them. Meanwhile, the Child enters the

translate what is said into a painting

other, but not in Las Lajas. They are so accustomed to being together that they

feet of the Queen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Queen who

or work of sculpture.

In Central America, for example,

have no need to look at each other in order to sustain their mutual attention.

alted that She moves us to trust her

Our Lady of Guadalupe has stamped an image of herself having the traits

She directs her eyes toward the Latin

entirely.

some material object in order to per petuate the memory of an apparition or when She appears to a seer who later describes

of a

her to an artist who will

It is curious to note the relation

intimacy of those who arrive at the displays in her gaze a kindness so ex

Mexican on the mantle of the

Indian Juan Diego. There She can be seen stepping on the moon and ob scuring the sun, which is behind her.

The sun and the moon were worshipped by the Aztecs as gods. The sight of this powerful lady overcoming their idols was decisive in the conversion of the Mexican Indians.

Our Lady of Las Lajas in Colombia is an analogous miracle. There God performed the prodigy of printing the figure of His Mother on a rock. Who can deny the thick supernatural at mosphere characteristic of images painted by the Angels?

As limited as one's sense of obser

vation may be, one cannot fail to ex claim upon seeing her: "How Latin American She is!" Something very es

sential, a reflection of the qualities and

virtues

of

the

Latin

American

? â&#x20AC;˘ I-.

people, is expressed in Our Lady of Las Lajas.

But what does her physiognomy tells us?

Let us go on a pilgrimage inside it.

We find a great personality, the pro

I

found and intelligent gaze of a medi tating and recollected person. She has

an extraordinary stability and solidity,

m

a continuity of will and temperament.

Her calm reminds one of the phrase "Beautiful Lady of the rocks and of the situations." Nothing shakes or agi tates her. There is no arrogance or os tentation in her, but rather the domin

ion of one who is accustomed to having her will obeyed. She is more regal than

many images of Mary. She could not have a better mantle than her long, abundant, and beautiful hair. The color and

richness of her dress are those

of a Queen.

She is extremely kind and mother ly. How the Child Jesus feels good in her arms! What throne could be more

worthy of Him? He is almost at play, with the liberty of a child.

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The Sanctuary of Las Lajas offers a grand sight, like a flower of stone which has sprung up in the abyss.

Estate of Our Lady of Good Success Celebrates an Extraordinary Publishing Event: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION A reception celebrating the publica tion of a new, enlarged edition of Revolution and Counter-Revolution by Prof. Plinio

Correa

de

Oliveira

was

held at the Estate of Our Lady of Good Success in Bedford, New York on May 24, 1980.

The book has just been published in paperback by the Foundation for a Christian Civilization, which offers this edition

of Revolution

and

Counter-

revohition to Our Lady of Fatima.

♦♦♦ The present edition is the second one to be published in the United States. The third part of Revolution and Counter-revolution is presented to

the North American public for the first time with this edition.

The author of this work is the dis

tinguished Brazilian Catholic professor of contemporary history at the Cath olic Pontifical University of Sao Paulo — Prof. Plinio Correa de Oliveira.

the years, he has written a numbt widely acclaimed works, some of whn.ii have received significant ecclesiastical approbation.

During the twenty years of its ex istence, Revolution and Counterrevolu

tion has gone through a number of edi tions in various languages: Portuguese,

Italian, Spanish, French, and English.

REVOLUTION AND

COUNTER-REVOLUTION

Its influence has been felt from Canada

to Argentina in this hemisphere, throughout Europe, and in the Orient.

The book unmasks the features of

the Revolution which has fomented the

great crises shaking the West. It charac terizes the Revolution as universal,

one, total, dominant, and processive. It describes the roots of the Revolution, New, enlarged edition o/Revolution and Counter-revolution.

its essence, its march, and its metaCRUSADE 5

morphoses. It also depicts the features of the Counter-revolution, and shows how it can defeat the Revolution.

This book provides the basis for a truly global view of world affairs which places the historic destiny of the nation in focus, making possible a continual strengthening of the national will in the face of the onslaughts of Commun-

♦ 4?

In his preface to this edition, the author states:

. .Providence had the

right to expect the West to mobilize its immense cultural, technical, and eco

nomic superiority in order to oblige Communism to carry out successive withdrawals that could even lead to

the liberation of the Russian people.

However, no decisive aid ever came from Western nations to free the Rus

sian people from the prison-state that extends from the Iron Curtain to the

vast regions of Asia.

"One day History will judge this inertia with severity and question the

Western peoples for not having made use of every means to relieve their op pressed brothers.

"I would like to stress, moreover,

that the expression 'inertia' does not sum up the whole reality.

"The censurable capitulation at Yalta and the purely verbal — and only limitedly efficacious — quarrel of the cold war has indeed been succeeded by a no less censurable inertia. And this in ertia is all the more censurable be

cause of its being negligent and good humored. It influenced the West during

the period called the 'peaceful co existence.' Later, however, came some

thing even more grave: the period of 'detente' in which the United States and the richest nations of the West ob

Professor Plinio Correa de Oliveira, the author o/Revolution and Counter-revolution.

stinately sent to Russia capital, plants, know-how, technicians, and so on.

"While the Russian giant fed him

everything possible to prepare the de

Vietnam, Mozambique, Angola (all in 1975) and more recently Afghanistan

struction of the latter. Military superi

(1978).

self on the riches of the West, he did

ority, which the West should have capit alized on during the post-war period in order to oblige Russia to refrain from its arms race and to renounce its world

wide ideological and political imperial ism, has — so to speak — stopped its

ages other conquests, and it does so

states in his preface to this edition; "After the launching of Revolution and

Counterrevolution

in

1959, I

with redoubled emphasis. This is what the history of all imperialism teaches.

"Everyone knows that today Soviet

founded in 1960 with a group of

imperialism is more enterprising than

young at the time — the Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition.

friends — some of whom were very

Family and Property. ...

this deterioration was occurring, Russia

6 CRUSADE

TFP's and associated entities.

As Prof. 'Plinio Correa de Oliveira

"Each successful conquest encour

progress and begun to wither. While extended its conquests to the high point at which they are found today. As the Kremlin leaders sat at the negotiating table in the seemingly pacifistic atmos phere of 'detente,'Russia successively conquered Ethiopia (1974), Cambodia,

societies that developed from it: the

Indeed, the Communists hoped that South America would prove to be the soft underbelly of the United States, and worked out a plan for it. However, they ran into a strong barrier: Revolu tion and

Counterrevolution and

the

"This

ideal

immediately

spread

throughout South America, attracting the enthusiasm of youths in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. . ..

"Naturally, the combativity of the

TFP's immediately directed itself against

It is not surprising that Revolution

organized and declared Communism.

and

Nevertheless, the TFP's foresaw that

claimed by distinguished theologians, philosophers, editors, writers, and public figures from around,the world.

Fernand Serrano Misas, a Spanish editor,

the guerillas spread by Cuba in South

America would soon miserably disap pear for lack of logistical support from the rural populations, as has actually happened. They also foresaw that Communism was far from being able to reach power in any government through a majority in the polls, a prevision

that was entirely and meticulously con firmed by the facts. Accordingly, the TFP's understood that the red danger

would seek to advance by another path and that it was necessary to block that path. Let me explain myself.

"Within the profoundly traditional

Counter-revolution

has

been

ac

stated that "it is of the caliber of an

encyclical." And the American editor and author, John Steinbacher, called it

"the most important document ever written, short of the Bible, since it spells out clearly and unequivocally exactly how Christian Civilization can be saved

by this generation."

The book has been praised and rec ommended by Archbishop Romolo Carboni, Apostolic Nuncio to Peru, in 1961 in a letter to the author. In

tinent, Communism could not limit it

1973, this same high ecclesiastical personage, writing to Mr. Giovanni

self to making its propaganda openly.

Cantoni, called the work "truly useful."

and Catholic population of our con If it were to have done so, it would

In addition. Revolution and Counter

have closed many doors to the Com munists. Therefore, their propaganda had to advance mainly in a veiled fash

revolution has been praised by the late Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, the late Thomas Cardinal Tien, Bishop Victor Keuppens, Dean Ettiene Catta, and

ion by developing a crypto-commun-

many others.

have encountered a reaction that would

ist brand of socialism in the midst of

various non-communist groups and social classes. From there, they sought to make the public familiar with left

^

ist ideas and to make it less fearful of

the piinciples of the red sect. Only

The various editions of Revolution

through this achievement could open

and Counter-revolution, beginning with

and declared Communism be given the

the first one, have concluded

possibility of existing.

these words: "We do not have the slight est doubt in our heart about any one of

"The

mentors of the

communist

with

Revolution expected this crypto-com-

the theses that constitute it. Neverthe

Our Lady of Fatima, to whom this

munism and the crowds of 'useful in

less, we subject them all, unrestrictedly, to the judgment of the Vicar of Christ, disposed to renounce immediately any

edition is dedicated.

one of them if it should separate itself

even slightly from the Holy Church,

progressives and anti-communists, and these two opposing factions confront

Our Mother, the Arc of Salvation and

each other.

nocents' supporting it to gradually mod ify pari passu the structure of society and of ecoiKimy through socializing reforms in such a way as increasingly to transform present-day society, which is based on private property, into a collectivistic society.

"The TFP's set out to

denounce

the Gate of Heaven."

Commenting on this statement, the publisher of the present edition af

this whole game and thus block the way

firms in his foreword to it: "Twenty

to

years have passed since this statement

such

an insidious form

of com

was first published. In the meantime,

munist advance. . . .

if if if "Such a terrible state of affairs is of first concern to Catholics. A' â&#x20AC;˘ "f-

"In summation, we can say that if

Revohttion and Counter-revolution has

it were not for the existence of the

TFP's, perhaps the tactic of cryptocommunism would have already subju

been amply and freely spread through out the Western world, without any of its theses receiving any challenge from

gated the whole of South America for

the supreme Magisterium of the Church.

social doctrine. As an obstacle, the

Moscow. And

This fact adds further weight to the impressive approbations cited above.

Church can pursue its mission of salva

the

South

Atlantic,

where the Communists have already made so many advances in

Africa,

"To

this must be added another

ficacious weapon against this ii .1 enemy, Revolution and Counter-revolu tion poses the counter-revolutionary wisdom of the Church and its luminous Revolution must be removed so that the tion unfettered.

wouW now be a communist lake. Such

fact of great gravity. In the third part

"But it is also of concern to all men

a condition would produce internation al consequences that are easy to evaluate.

of the present work, the author states:

of good will, not only because of the

..the center, the most sensitive and

influence of the policy of the Church

truly decisive point of the fight between

over the course of nations but also be

cundity of the action born of this book,

Revolution and Counter-revolution has

cause of the extent to which the temp

an action continuously inspired by it

moved from temporal society to the spiritual society. .It has come to be the Holy Church. Within its fabric, there are, on the one side, the progressives,

the same enemy. Men who seek the

"All of this shows very well the fe

and aimed at the realization of the

goals that it indicates."

if if if

crypto-communists, and pro-commun ists, and on the other side, the anti-

oral society has been undermined by most

effective

methods of combat

against it will welcome a book that

provides all of the principles needed for the struggle."

CRUSADE 7

THE COUNTER REVOLUTION ON THE

THE NICARAGUAIZATION OF a technical and humane it THE NICARAGUAIZATION OF BRAZIL BLOCKED BY A

1111 A D^^LI

TIMELY MANIFESTO

The message points t

The message points out that "...

TIMELY MANIFESTO

I wl A'% Discerning that crypto-communist elements in the Church in Brazil were

fanning class struggle, the Brazilian In the words of Prof. Plinio Correa

a technical and humane in vestigation of what is really happening there. tl

de Oliveira "...the Counter-revolution

Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property did not choose to

is in the literal sense of the word a "re

stand idly by.

action." That is to say, it is an action

directed against another action....

for every every desperate desperate person persor who manages to flee there are many others equally

desperate, who do not flee simply be cause they cannot....

"All that happened so far is much more meaninggful than the most perfect public opinion poll, however impartial, well-equipped and specialized the poll ster might be....

this character of reaction

. IT IS NOT ONLY A QUESTION

comes all the nobleness and importance

OF 10,000 PEOPLE WE ARE TALK

of the Counter-revolution. In effect,

ING ABOUT. THE ENTIRE CUBAN

"From

if it is the Revolution that is killing us,

there is nothing more indispensable than a reaction that aims to crush it. To be

adverse in principle to a counter-revolu

tionary reaction is the same as to wish to hand the world over to the dominion of the Revolution. ...

Counter-revolution so considered is not and cannot be a movement in the clouds

that fights against phantoms. It has to be the Counter-revolution of the twenti

eth century, carried out against the Revolution as it is in fact today. . .. The Counter-revolution is' not, therefore, a

mere retrospective review of the evil deeds of the Revolution in the past, but an effort to bar its course in the

present." {Revolution and Counter revolution, pages 85-86).

It is according to logic, then, that as

the Revolution is opposed to Christian Civilization and the Natural Law, those who would defeat the Revolution must

do so by affirming the principles of Christian Civilization and the Natural

Law. It is also according to logic that as the Revolution is global, acting over all nations and all men, the Counter

of

In this essay, we will consider the action

of the Counter-revolution in

three nations: Brazil, the United States,

and Spain. And we will see how at the very moment of the debacle in Iran the Counter-revolution can be seen To be on the march.

Nicaraguaization of Brazil blocked

Oliveira, president of the National Council of the Society, published a

timely manifesto to clarify the issue.

The document, which appeared in the Brazilian press, reviewed the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in

"It is necessary to add that the

revolution must also, by way reaction, manifest itself universally.

Accordingly, Prof. Plinio Correa de

respect to the workers, affirming their right to strike for a just wage when no other recourse was open to them, their entitlement to a minimum wage, etc. At the same time, the document

demonstrated with the utmost clarity

that the attempt of the CNBB to widen the

strike

standard

to

other

communist

workers

was a

tactic

which

aimed at the Nicaraguaization of Brazil.

With the publication of this serene and noble document, the strike was

quickly resolved and tranquility re turned to the Brazilian people.

NATION â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if you would allow us to

repeat, Mr. President â&#x20AC;&#x201D; IS BEING TORTURED, AND, IT IS THE NA TION AS A WHOLE WHICH MUST BE KEPT IN MIND."

Against this background of reality representatives of the American TFP had

a scheduled interview

with

Mr.

Richard Graham, Special Assistant for

Human Rights (Central American and Caribbean area). During the interview at Mr. Graham's office in the State

Department, the American TFP pre sented the Special Assistant with a copy of the original telegram to Car ter, expressing their wish that an answer would soon be forthcoming from the White House.

THE TFP's ASK JOHN PAUL II TO SHOW "COMPASSION

FOR POOR CUBA"

THE AMERICAN TFP ASKS CARTER TO CALL AMERICAS TOGETHER FOR HUMANE INVESTIGATION OF CUBA As an

estimated

10,000 Cubans

crowded the Peruvian and Venezuelan

embassies in Havana seeking political

asylum, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) asked President Carter to call upon all governments of the Americas to support jointly a demand that Cuba grant free entry to a com mission of experts that would carry out

A telegram has been sent by Prof.

Plinio Correa de Oliveira to His Holi

ness John Paul II imploring him to express, in an address to the world, "pastoral compassion for poor Cuba, the victim of the most sinister tyranny ever to exist on the vast American continent." The TFP's and associated entities in the different nations of the

world immediately made themselves co signers of the message, which says in part:

"Indeed, Most Holy Father, if the

(Continued on page II)

Telegram of TF^ v© Carter calls for humane

investigation of Cuba

nXT OF THE TELEGRAM OF THE AMERICAN TFP TO PRESIDENT CARTER ON CUBA The various incidents of refugees

attitude we take toward Cuba could

BEING TORTURED, AND, IT IS

seeking asylum in the Peruvian and Venezuelan embassies in Havana for

reinforce or shake our credibility with all the countries and peoples

THE NATION AS A WHOLE WHICH MUST BE KEPT IN MIND.

many weeks now are symptomatic

of the Americas, whose immense

The question as to how far we

of an acute spiritual and material malaise affecting sectors of the Cuban population. Those so af

majority feel united to the Cuban people by religious, historical, and

should go in Cuba, which in the

fected could be a majority of the people, a considerable minority or

ethnic

links

that we

must con

sider if we are not to err very gravely.

even a small one. But the fact is

that they are forced to do so by an extreme degree of isolation, oppression, and misery. The situa tion is such as to trouble and shock

our generous American people, awakening noble impulses of fel lowship and concern.

The gravity of this situation became dramatically clear in the

last few days when the tyrant — Fidel Castro — taking an appar ently liberal attitude which he has obstinately avoided for a long time now, gave permission for all those who are discontented to leave the beautiful island he has turned

into the greatest prison in the his tory of the Americas. Discontent

runs so high that, in just a few hours, some 10,000 Cubans sought asylum in the Peruvian embassy alone.

When we consider these facts,

we must remember that, in general, for every desperate person who manages to flee there are many others equally desperate, who do

Your Administration has, in fact, carried on a continuous action in the Latin American countries to eliminate or soften the dicta

torial regimes established in many of them. Freeing peoples from op pressive governments was the prin ciple invoked with missionary-like zeal for

this manifold and insis

rigor of logic flashes in the mind of every aware American, leads us to present you with a suggestion. A suggestion, by the way, as moder

ate as it could be in view of your previous actions. It is that the United States call on all the govern

ments of the Americas to support us in a demand that Cuba grant

free entry to experts enjoying the

confidence of the public in the three Americas. Having free access

to the unfortunate island, they would be able to carry out there a

tent action. Although this policy was applauded bv broad sectors of Latin American opinion, none of them gave it more outstanding

free, wide-ranging, technical and hu mane investigation of what really

support than the Communists and

ways to prevent their recurrence.

happened there so that the world may know the facts and look for

their fellow travelers, that is, the

We do not foresee that those in

sectors most influenced by the worst enemies of our country.

power in Cuba can comfortably appeal to the only principle in

Sensational and scandalous evi dence of the existence of an inhu

this measure, the principle of non

mane and tyrannical police state

intervention. In fact, their notori

now surfaces in Cuba. All the dis

ous intervention in the Caribbean

orders the U.S. Government alleges for its political interventions in Central and South

America seem

petty in comparison to it. As you

whose

and

name

Central

they

could

America

and

resist

their

continuous relationship with all the communist parties in South Ameri ca make Cuba a force of permanent

have alleged — not without rea son — there are indeed, in many

intervention in all of these areas.

not flee simply because they can not. So, there

innumerable

instances, serious cases of oppres

Cubans unable to flee who deeply yearn for a change in their situ

sion, moral or physical torture in

themselves boast of having inter vened in Africa. They officially abandoned the principle of non intervention and affirmed a right to send an expeditionary force to far

are

those countries. In Cuba, however,

ation.

the facts show that it is not merely

All that has happened so far is much more meaningful than the

a question of serious cases. The

most perfect public opinion poll, however impartial, well-equipped,

whole nation feels morally and physically tortured and oppressed.

Therefore, a question arises: If we

and specialized the pollster might be.

did so much to alleviate individu

Thus, our people unexpectedly find themselves facing a situation

al situations, how much more should

that is not only troubling but also

a whole country?

Certainly, it was noble of you to open our doors to the Cuban

dramatic to the highest degree.

This puts your Administration, if you permit us to say so, in a

we do to alleviate the situation of

away Africa to free the overseas

Portuguese provinces from alleged abuses of authority by their mother •country.

We do not believe that those who control Cuba can invoke the

principle of non-intervention in re lation to the present scandal in

credibility of American intentions

suppressed by practical difficulties

toward other countries.

Havana without losing credibility in the eyes of world opinion. This loss of credibility is the terrible price

that now arise. For such difficul

they would have to pay for their

ties are small in comparison to the

contradiction. But what a terrible

juncture

which tests the whole

This credibility has already suf fered considerable damage among

refugees. The hope thus raised in those unfortunate people cannot be

Furthermore, the Cuban leaders

extent of the resources that Provi

price we will have to pay for our

dence has granted us. BUT IT IS

contradiction, Mr. President, if this

States in the Near East and the

NOT ONLY A QUESTION OF

Middle East Uecause of the un

10,000 PEOPLE WE ARE TALK

expectedness of the diplomatic

ING ABOUT. THE ENTIRE CU

moves by which we change our policies and friends. The kind of

time we abstain from intervening in Cuba after such a long and tedi ously wordy series of interventions

BAN NATION — if you allow us

in other countries of this hemi

to repeat, Mr. President — IS

sphere. In these nations we have

the nations friendly to the United

CRUSADE 9

To John Paul 11: "Compassion ior Poor Cuba"

put out certain fires. In Cuba, are we going to let them burn the

with your Administration. We are moved, not by any political de

fully suggesting that you take a

whole house down and go unpun

signs of our own, but by an impulse of our Christian and patriotic hearts in the face of a situation distressing to us and certainly to millions of

to express our wholehearted wish for unity with our country's au thorities. Please accept, Mr. Presi dent, our respects and best wishes for success to the advantage of

ished?

We ask you, Mr. President, to see in these arguments and this suggestion a desire to collaborate

other Americans as well.

By appealing to you, respect

path we earnestly desire, we mean

Christian grandeur in America.

TEXT OF THE TELEGRAM OF THE TFP'S TO JOHH PAUL H OH CUBA The drama of the ten thousand Cubans

who have flocked into the Embassy of Peru in Havana seeking asylum, does not express only the personal anguish of each one of them, a result of the misery and oppression in which they feel submerged. The spasms and moral convulsions shaking them, equally disturb the whole population, tortured in body and soul under the whip of an atheistic and inhuman regime. Personified in the ten thousand refugees — among whom are found the ill, the aged, and children of the most tender age — the whole Cuban people stand up before the world, as though saying: Behold, from the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no sound spot in me.(Is 1:6).

This mute and harrowing cry of pain has certainly given rise to some categorical protests and some efforts to help the refugees.

Consequently, in spite of the cold and dis concerting political and bureaucratic delays, one may expect that the personal situations of all these unfortunate refugees will be finally resolved in conformance with Natural Law and Christian charity.

This, however, will by no means resolve the overall situation of the noble and unfortunate

Cuban people, who, unless they are helped urgently and efficaciously, will slide from misfortune to misfortune. In this way one must fear that, before long, they will once again turn to the contemporary world to stigmatize it as egoistic, pragmatic, and vilely cowardly in the face of problems it does not know how to resolve and duties it does not

want to fulfill. "Behold" — they will say — "we are worms, not men; we are the scorn of

men, the outcast of nations," as King David textually speaks of the Divine Redeemer (Ps. 21:7).

Indeed, Most Holy Father, if the Christian fibers of old still vibrated in the spirit of present-day man, the world-wide compassion for the victims and the indignation of all nations against the torturers would have stirred up one of those hurricanes of holy wrath which neither the power of gold and

weapons nor even the most wilily disguised and contrived political plots can resist.

But to our shame, the sense of justice and dignity no longer has the strength to bring about.such regenerating and irresistible winds.

In the face of the Cuban drama, only the words of Your Holiness have the necessary conditions to wake up dormant Christian energies in the whole world. Throughout the Earth, Holy Father, united to the Cuban people, their brothers in the Faith, are those who, in desolation, silence, and prayer, await those words.

The Societies for the Defense of Tradition,

Family and Property and similar entities, all of them autonomous in relation to one an

other, acting in the civil sphere and inspired by the traditional teachings of Holy Church, genuflect before Your Holiness. And i consonance with the feelings certainly going through the souls of all Catholic Cubans, implore Your Holiness to address the world expressing Your pastoral compassion for poor Cuba, the victim of the most sinister r\Tanny ever to exist on the vast American continent.

In union of soul with these Cubans muted

by brutal terror, we raise our eyes to the throne of Saint Peter and implore Your Holiness: Lord, save them, for they are per ishing (Matt. 8:25).

For them and for us we implore the apo stolic blessing.

American TFP in Miami

COUNTER-REVOLUTION

J

(Continued from page 8) Christian fibers of old still vibrated in

the spirit of present-day man, the world wide compassion for the victims and the indignation of all nations against the torturers would have stirred up one

of those hurricanes of holy wrath which neither the power of gold and weapons nor even the most wilily disguised and contrived political plots can resist.

"But, to our shame, the sense of justice and dignity no longer has the

The American TFP in an interview with Richard Graham at his office in the State Department.

strength to bring about such regenera ting and irresistible winds.

"In the face of the Cuban drama,

only the words of Your Holiness have the necessary conditions to wake up dormant Christian energies in the whole world. Throughout the Earth, Holy Fa

ther, united to the Cuban people, their brothers in the Faith, are those who,

in

desolation, silence, and

prayer,

await those words."

THE AMERICAN TFP GOES TO FLORIDA TO ACT IN DEFENSE OF THE CUBAN NATION

TFP distributing its message to President Carter In May, a caravan of seven members of the American TFP went to Florida

THE TFP ON CUBA

to hold a campaign in defense of the

Cuban nation. In Miami and Key West, they distributed a flyer (in Spanish and English) that contained the text of a telegram that the American TFP had

interviewing Cuban refugees in Miami.

THE AMERICAN TFP SPREADS

when great catastrophies are going

NEWS OF THE LIQUEFACTION

to occur."

sent to President Carter asking him to set up a commission of experts from the Americas to investigate the real condi

OF THE BLOOD OF

tions in Cuba.

ST. PANTALEON

During their week-long action in Florida, the TFP members passed out over 9,000 of these flyers, visited all the major newspapers as well as most of the important radio and television

stations, and interviewed many of the refugees

who

had

fled

the island-

prison of Fidel Castro.

The campaign of the TFP was enthu

siastically reviewed by the Cuban peo ple and had favorable repercussions in the press.

In recognition of Saint Anthony Maria Claret's past apostolic endeavors

Since July 26, 1979, the blood of

Saint Pantaleon, a martyr of the fourth

century, has failed to coagulate after its usual liquefaction on his feast day.

The Saint's blood remained liquid throughout World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. Only after these catastrophes had ended did it return to its normal dry state.

According to Fr. Eugene Ayape in a letter published on October 13, 1979 in the Madrid daily ABC: "The blood . . .liquefies beyond thcfeastoftheSaint

The news of the liquefaction of the

blood of Saint Pantaleon is being s by the American TFP among stuOi..,,> on university campuses. The TFP is distributing a circular called "Indif

ference Is Plunging Us Into Chaos!

A Timely Call to Heroism..."

DIVORCE BLOCKED IN SPAIN In response to an effort to intro

duce divorce into Spain, the Spanish COvadonga Society mounted a vigorous campaign against the divorcist bill. As a result of the campaign, divorce has at this. time been blocked in Spain, a great victory for the Counter-revolution.

for the Cuban nation, the mission of

the American TFP was named, the

Saint Anthony Maria Claret Operation.

TFP spreads the news; Saint's blood still liquid!

Divorce blocked

in Spain

mi

TV-"'

THE MARVELOUS

AND THE REAL IN THE EORMATION OF CHILDREN m:rl

Today, dear reader, we enter the golden world of childhood. In this way, wc hope to please people of all ages. Let it be for older persons an occasion for nostalgic reminiscing and for those who

on the other hand, with its picturesque, calm, domestic, and friendly aspects, is essential for arousing children's in terest in reality and virtue.

are younger, an encouragement and a hope. May everyone find in it enter

h Marlborough goes to war. Easter

tainment and a source of reflection.

on the Mediterranean Sea. It sailed and

passes, the feast of the Holy Trinity too, but Marlborough doesn't return. Waiting for tidings on the top of the tower, his spouse receives the sad news: Marl borough is dead. The messenger con

sailed until its food supply came to an end. Looking for a way to avoid starving

soles her, however, by explaining that the whole army had seen the hero's

Premier Livre de Chansons ("My First

to death, the crew cast lots to deter

soul gloriously entering Heaven.

Book of Songs") a beautiful book of ancient French children songs published

by Larousse in Paris in 1962.

mine who among them was to be de

Yes, today we focus on the marvel ous world of children, where innocence

is the source of the relative happiness that man,after original sin, is allowed to enjoy in this land of exile. To do this,

we present the magnificent illustrations of Helene

Poirie contained

in

Mon

Once upon a time there was a small ship filled with children that set sail

voured. Ah, how sad! This sad lot fell to the smallest of the children.

While

the

others

discussed

the

cooking details, the poor little one climbed the mast to the crow's nest of

the ship. There he knelt down and prayed: "Oh Most Holy Virgin, my Patroness, if I have sinned, forgive me quickly, but don't allow them to eat Let us observe the illustrations on

this page. At times, they evoke the sense of the marvelous in our souls; at other

moments, aspects of the daily real life.

The marvelous, on the one hand, is

indispensable to the mentality of a child as a means of refining the artis tic sense, elevating the spirk, and open ing new horizons that wholesomely stimulate the imagination. Daily life.

12 CRUSADE

me!" The Most Holy Virgin heeded him and worked an outstanding mir acle: a great school of fish leapt onto the ship. The little boy was saved.

The picture illustrates, with much candor, the boy's moment of affliction and the miracle. Its lesson is that the

hardships and surprises of life must be faced with a spirit of faith and con fidence in the supernatural.

One side of the picture depicts the festive atmosphere during Marlborough's departure; the knight on

parade, the drums and trumpets mark ing the cadence, the soldiers fol : in militant procession, and the people admiring and applauding, The other side of the picture shows the solemn funeral of the warrior: his weap ons being carried ceremoniously, the standards being held attentively as though in an awesome hush, the black

coffin in the background,and the hero's

soul ascending to Heaven in the figure of a dove. In the middle of the picture, deep in the background is Marlborough's castle. On the top of the tower, one can see his spouse receiving the news of her husband's death.

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This picture provides a vivid de piction of the beauty of military life in

This is a lesson in love for the har

Through this enchanting world, the intelligence of the child crosses the

a Christian ambience. It is an encourage

monious inequalities created by God, a lesson in how to admire, as every true

ment to heroism and an example of Christian resignation in the face of pain

Catholic does, the human dignity in any social class.

becomes acquainted with human society in all of its complexity: the differences

threshold of domestic ambiences and

that exist in it, the attractions that it

and suffering.

offers, the duties that it imposes, the

disillusionments that it brings, and the

complicated play of passions that vi

Ik

brate in it during the victories and set backs of the great struggle of human

ft

existence.

It is a struggle, yes, one which some wage in defense of their persona! in

Finally, we call attention to a scene

of high breeding and compassion such as was common in the eighteenth

These examples enable us to gauge

terests, be they legitimate or not, and

century. A beautiful lady traveling in her magnificent golden coach shows

the profound wisdom that is in this small world

which others wage for a higher end, that is, against the world, the flesh, and the

interest in and concern for the lot of

fashioned by Christian Civilization. In

devil, in order to establish on this earth

the poor, hard-working peasant talking

it we find what the French call "lecon

the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ

to her.

des choses"("the lesson of things").

and of His Holy Mother.

of children when it is

The scene is diametrically opposed to the bitter and rebellious mentality of a Marxist, who would find in it only

reasons for fomenting class warfare, for the picture shows clearly the suave har

mony that exists in the conversation of /-i

the two personages. The poor laborer does not have the least inferiority com plex over his humble situation. On the contrary, he is happy at being given at

tention by the beautiful lady. She, in turn, treats him so affably that her coachman and lackeys are stunned. In the distance, some peasants are con

tentedly watching the scene.

. AaI-,.

CRUSADE 13

BITTER FRUITS OF SEX EDUCATION One of the arguments used most fre

quently by advocates of an early, pub lic, coeducational, and compulsory sex

education is that it gives the boys and girls the necessary knowledge to behave adequately when they grow up, there by enabling them to avoid the disorder

ly life that would result from their obtaining this information from illintentioned or misguided friends.

Coeducational sex education.

However, the results of a sex educa

tion carried out in this way appear

to be quite different from what these enthusiasts promise. We will exemplify this by referring to two situations in which sex education is directly pointed out as the cause of rising immorality,

15 increased 23% with this famous class.

(January 31, 1978), in Jane E. Brody's

In the beginning of the 73-74 school

article entitled "1976 Survey Finds

crime, and disorder.

year, 45 girls in elementary schools,

Deutsche Tagespost (October 13, 1976) cited in Cbiesa Viva (February 1977) of Brescia, Italy gives statistical data issued by Sweden's Ministry of

150 in high schools, and 2,000 in pro fessional schools were pregnant."

Frequency of Teenage Pregnancy Rose 33% in 5 years,"gives the following data:

Health:

released on moral decadence in the U-

one-third over 1971. The use of con

traceptives among youths of this age

among children younger than 14

nited States strongly indicates the in fluence that sex education may have had in bringing about this decadence, even though it is not cited as the direct

increased 900%.

cause of the situation.

•Sex education started in Swedish

schools in 1956.

•From 1956 to 1972, pregnancies

ber of pregnant students between 13 and

* «•

Considering the above, some data

In

turn, The

New

York

Times

About 10% of white females be

tween 15 and 19 years of age have had a premarital pregnancy, an increase of

almost doubled in comparison to 1971.

In a poll carried out with about 10 million women between 15 and 19, ap proximately 4 million had premarital sexual experiences and more tl million had become pregnant one or

•In 1973, 681 girls between 14 and 16 years of age became mothers.

Miami's Diana Las Americas (May 17, 1978) offers the following statis

•From 1968 to 1974, abortion in

tics on moral decadence in Florida,"

more times; 45% of these had resorted

"Illegitimate births continue to in crease in Florida. A report of the Health and Rehabilitation Services Department affirms that the number of births by

to abortion.

Although someone could object that sex education is not specifically blamed

15-year old girls increased 200%.

•From 1973 to 1974, homosexual-

related crimes among children below 15 doubled.

* * «

unmarried mothers is 21,191, 20.3%

in the last two news items, the data that

eases among children below 14

of the total number of births in the

they furnish

increased 900%.

State in 1976. Many illegitimate births were prevented through abortions,

with that provided by the other two publications, which

which totalled 37,340 in 1976. The

They also coincide with the time in

•From 1950 to 1972, venereal dis

* ••

Commenting on the results of sex education classes in West Germany, Lisbon's magazine Cavaleiro de Imacu-

lada (May 25, 1978) provides the fol

lowing data: "Thus in Bavaria, the num14 CRUSADE

coincide meaningfully do mention it.

number of births by unmarried mothers

which so-called "sex education" has

between 15 and 19 years of age in

been increasin^y introduced in the

creased from 20.8% (in 48.1% (in 1976)."

countries.

1960) to

Western

World's

most

"advanced"

The Ecclesiastical

Magisterium on Sex Education

As the bitter fruits of sex education

become more and more palpable in our nation, it seems opportune to present to our readers a correct orientation in

regard to this matter. Naturally, we base all that we say on the perennial doctrine of the Catholic Church. We expound the clear doctrinal principles on sex education maintained by the Ecclesiasti cal Magisterium for many decades now.

The bold type within the quotations was added by us in order to emphasize the most important parts of the texts.

THE DOCUMENTS OF PIUS XI

Pius XI, after condemning educa tional naturalism in his Encyclical, Divini Illius Magistri, on the Christian

education of youth, uttered severe warnings on sex education. The Pon tiff said:

"Hence every form of pedagogic naturalism which in any way excludes or weakens supernatural Christian for mation in the teaching ofyouth, is false.

tion, falsely imagining that they can forearm youths against the dangers of sensuality by means purely natural, such as a foolhardy initiation and pre

cautionary instruction for all i criminately, even in public; and, wo still, by exposing them at an early age

Every method of education founded,

to the occasions in order to accustom

whoUy or in part, on the denial or forgetfulness of original sin and ofgrace, and relying solely on the powers of hu

them, so it is argued, and as it were to harden them against such dangers.

"Such persons grievously err in

man nature, is unsound."

refusing to recognize the inborn weak

Subsequently, the Pope adds: An other very grave danger is that natur alism which nowadays invades the field of education in that most delicate matter ofpurity of morals. Far too com

ness of human nature. . .and' also in

mon is the error of these who with dan

gerous assurance and under an ugly term propagate a so-called sex educa

ignoring the experience offacts, from which it is clear that, particularly in young people, evil practices are the ef fect not so much of ignorance of in tellect as of weakness of a will exposed to dangerous occasions and unsupported by the means ofgrace.

CRUSADE 15

wonderful designs of the Creator are destined to complement each other in the family and in society, precisely because of their differences, which therefore ought to be maintained and encouraged during their years offorma

tion, with the necessary distinction and corresponding separation, according to age and circumstances"(Idem, page 36).

In his Encyclical Casti Conubi on Christian marriage, the same Pontiff,

dealing with the question of sex educa

tion as a preparation for marriage or as an instruction to those already married, gives this warning; "Such

wholesome

instruction

and

religious training in regard to Christian

marriage will be quite different from that exaggerated physiological educa •»

tion by means of which, in these times of ours, some reformers of married life make pretense of helping those joined in wedlock, laying much stress on these

.r

. A-

• r .'.k'

V.' - -'.t

physiological

matters,

in

which

is

learned rather the arc of sinning in a subtle way than the virtue of living chastely" (Encyclical Letter on Chris tian Marriage, St. Paul's Editions, Bos ton, Mass, page 56).

AN INCISIVE DECREE

OF THE HOLY OFFICE

Another important document on this matter, which is even considered

Pius XI. Sex education,with which certain reformers of married life claim to help the spouses, teaches rather "the art ofsinning in a subtle way than the virtue of living

to be a complement of the Divini Illius Magistri, is the Decree of the

Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office dated March 21, 1931. This document,

chastely."

which was published during the Ponti "In this extremely delicate matter, ■if, all things considered, some private

tional schools, that is, those which ad

ficate of Pius XI, answers a consultation

mit students of both sexes:

on

instruction is found necessary and op portune, from those who hold from

dan education is the so-called method

God the commission to teach and who

of co-education. This too, by many

"False also and harmful to Chris-

sex

education

and

contains

the

recommendations below:

have the grace of state, every precau

of its supporters, is founded upon natur

"It is absolutely necessary m the formation of youth to follow the meth od employed until now by the Church

tion must be taken. Such precautions

alism and the denial of original sin; but

and by men of virtue, and recom

are well-known in traditional Christian education.'' (Christian Education of

by all, upon a deporable confusion of

mended by Our Most Holy Lord in the Encyclical Letter on the Christian Edu

Youth, Encyclical of Pius XI, Prow

ideas that mistakes a levelling promiscuity and equality, for the legiti

Books, 1971, Kenosha, Wisconsin, pages

mate

34 and 35).

Besides there is not in nature itself,

assocation

of

the

sexes. . . .

which fashions the two quite different in organism, in temperament, in abili ties, anything to suggest that there can

cation of Youth, dated December 31, 1929. To wit, it is necessary in the first place to take care of a full, firm, and uninterrupted religious formation of

being exposed to the dangers of an ill-

be or ought to be promiscuity, and

youths of both sexes; it is necessary to excite in youths esteem, desire, and love for the angelic virtue; and above all,

oriented education, Pius XI goes further, condemning also the so-called coeduca

much less equality, in the training of the two sexes. These in keeping with the

to instill in them constancy in prayer, frequency in use of the Sacraments of

In his desire to preserve youth from

16 CRUSADE

Penance and the Most Holy Eucharist, a continuous and filial devotion to the

Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of

holy purity, and a total consecration to her protection; to carefully avoid

all the more pernicious as secrecy in flames the imagination and excites the senses. If wise and discreet, your word

may become a guarantee and a warn

dangerous readings, obscene spectacles,

ing amidst the temptations to corrup tion surrounding them" (A.A.S., Year

the conversation of the evil ones and

XXXIII, Series II, Vol. VIII, 1941,

any other occasions of sin."

cate sex education, some of them writ

pages 455-456).

On September 18, 1951, in an al locution to parents, the Pontiff con demned the manner in which many

ten even by Catholic authors {AA.S.

Catholic authors deal with this matter

That Sacred Congregation then pro ceeds to censure the books that advo

23, page 118, apud Por Un Christian-

without the necessary discretion that it

isrno Autentico by Dom Antonio de

requires. He recommends the same

Castro

precautions that Pius XI prescribed in his Encyclical, Divini Illius Magistri:

Mayer, Editora

Vera

Cruz,

Sao Paulo, 1971, pages 86 and 87).

THE TEACHING OF PIUS XII In his allocution to the women of Catholic Action on October 26, 1941,

Pius XII gives wise and precious guide lines to parents on the sexual orienta tion that they must impart to their children:

"You shall inspire (in your children) a high esteem of and a kindled love for the virtue of purity, pointing out to them how the maternal protection of

the Immaculate Virgin is its safeguard.

Finally, with your perspicacity as mothers and educators, thanks to the

faithful openness of soul that you in still in your children, you will not fail to scrutinize and discern the occasion and the moment when certain delicate

questions arise in their spirit because of special perturbations of their senses.

Then it will behoove you, to your

daughter, and the father, to his soi7S â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to the extent that you deem neces

sary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; cautiously to lift the veil of truth and give a prudent, just, and Christian answer to such questions and anxieties. Let them receive itfrom your authority as Christian parents, at the

opportune moment, in the opportune measure, with all due cautions; and the

revelations about the mysterious and

be observed in this matter." Encyclical Sacra Virginitas, Collection of Pontifi cal Documents, Ed. Vozes, Petropolis, 2nd edition, 1969, page 26).

"There is a field in which this edu

cation of public opinion, and its recti fication, impose themselves with tragic

urgency. It is perverted, in this field, by a propaganda that one would not hesitate to call calamitous, even though this time it comes from

a Catholic

source and aims to actupon Catholics. ..

"We want to speak here of the writ ings, books, and articles regarding sex education, which nowadays frequently obtain an enormous success in book

stores and flood the whole world, in vading childhood, drowning the adol escent generation, and disturbing brides and young married couples."

Pius

Xll

adds:

"This literature,

if we can call it so, does not seem to take into any consideration the general experience of yesterday, today, and always, because it is founded on nature itself; this experience testifies that in moral education neither initiation nor

instruction have any advantage per se; and that both, on the contrary, are

grievously unwholesome and harmful when they are not linked to a constant

discipline, a vigorous self-control, and above all, to the use of supernatural forces, of prayer, and of the Sacra ments" (cf. Catolicismo, no. 13, Janu

ary 1952).

Pius XII. "Let them receive it from your authority as Christian parents, at the

opportune moment, in the opportune measure, with all due cautions. . ."

A RECENT PASTORAL LETTER REAFFIRMS PONTIFICAL DOCTRINE

Another noteworthy document on this matter, one which was published

only about two years ago, is the strong and timely Pastoral Letter on the Chaste Formation of Children and Students

by Msgr. Bernard D. Steward, Bishop of Sandhurst, Australia (Cambridge P Bendigo, 1978).

After calling to mind the traditional teaching of the Church on the virtue of chastity, the author, drawing attention to the immutability of the moral law. condemns modern "theological" cur rents opposed to traditional moral

miraculous law of life will be heard

In his Encyclical On Sacred Vir

with both respect and gratitude; their souls will be clarified with much less danger than if they learned it by chance,

ginity, the same Pontiff makes an im portant and opportune point on this

theology.

In addition, he censures the cate

matter: "However, in our times, cer

chetical

through unworthy meetings, clandes

tain teachers too often deem themselves

books

tine conversations, in school, from un

obliged to initiate innocent children in the secrets of generation in a way offensive to their modesty. Now the just moderation that modesty requires must

through the action of progressivists.

trustworthy companions who already know

too

much about the

matter;

through concealed readings, which are

movements and theological that

penetrated

his

diocese

The Prelate calls attention to the serious and delicate manner in which

the Holy Scriptures, in many places.

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treat subjects and problems related to this matter.

Bishop

Stewart's Pastoral Letter

teaches: "Where the correct termin

ology is adopted, children learn to avoid vulgarities. Words and the way of

very growth of the child and the adol escent brings its own curiosity about matters concerning sex; it is an indiv

idual, personal development. Attentive to it, before anything the parent must clarify that curiosity and instill modes

an atmosphere of modesty, purity, and chastity"(page 17).

Subsequently, he remarks: "We must take seriously the duty and the privil ege of helping boys and girls become chaste men and women" (page 18).

being are of great importance. Draw

ty to accompany the knowledge that is

In another passage, he stresses that

ings, pictures, illustrations are un necessary,"(page 9).

then acquired. Instruction given in a

"the

group or standardized soon becomes in

its traditional doctrine and its tradition

efficient or pernicious"{"ps-ge 17).

al formation in chastity"(page 19).

The

Prelate, affirming that the

Catholic Church still

maintains

Very opportunely, the Prelate calls

Documents of Pius XI and Pius XII on

sex education are entirely valid today,

to

mind

the

terrible

words of Our

gives some guidelines: "No one is in a better position than

Bishop Stewart adds: "The schools must support the parents. This does not

little ones who believe in me to sin, it

the father and the mother to know

mean that teachers must engage in classes to inform about sex; in fact,

were better for him to have a great mill stone hung around his neck, and to be

when and in what measure their child

ren will be prepared to receive so in timate and delicate a knowledge. The

Lord: "But whoever causes one of these

such classes must be forbidden. But it

drowned in the depths of the sea."

means that the school must encourage

(Matt. 18.6, page 18).

THE CHILD AS A BATTLEGROUND

[UiO'iuxauu

Will the sex education fanatics he allowed to destroy our children? Or will the parents assert their rights?

So that under their loving core, his innocence will he protected and he nourished hy the marvelous.

SPOTUGHT

THE SWEDISH PARADISE: A SHATTERED MYTH For more than a few years, Sweden has been singled out by the internation al media as a model for the whole West,

becoming a real myth for those who wished the ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity to come true in an ad

of material "well being" and a parox ysm of sensory satisfaction have pro voked an unprecedented moral and psychological crisis instead of produc ing the much desired "paradise on earth."

This crisis, which is but a consequence

the kulturhuset, his blue jeans stained with vomit, cause an elderly lady of dignified bearing and appearance to move quickly from the path of the drugged youth. Everybody steps out of his way.

of the systematic neglect of the neces

Example 2. Consider also these ob

Indeed, the mere mentioning of its name was enough to evoke in the minds

sities of the Swedish people's souls, has

servations by Mr. Carlhamer, an attor

brought Swedish society to a condition

of many persons an image of paradise on earth. This seemingly spontaneous

more like hell than dreamed of by the left.

ney of the Employers' Federation, who stated incisively: "Sweden, a model?

vanced stage.

the

paradise

attitude was more than slightly con

ditioned, however, by their having been repeatedly and emphatically assured that within it wealth and prosperity

were securely and happily combined with complete moral freedom and a total

abolition

of

the

"obscurantist

Why that's the hoax of the century...

The paradoxical cocktail of statism and

THE RAW REALITY

A report in Paris Match on life in Sweden gives, among others, the fol lowing two examples: Example 1. "Out of the way, dis

taboos" and poverty found in the "back ward" and underdeveloped countries.

gusting hag, or I'll cut you up!" These

In Swedish society, comfort and well-being supposedly reigned as a result of democratic freedom having been

dishevelled, and glassy-eyed youth as he staggers out of the comfort station of

harsh words uttered by a bearded,

laissez-faire concocted and

served by

our political leaders — yesterday the Social Democrats and today the Liberals — is bringing the country to its knees."

These two examples testify power fully against the supposed paradise of permissivism and equality.

Mr. Carlhamer's observations are put into impressive focus in the report in Paris Match, which is by Yves de Saint-

joined to a socialist distribution of

income. This mixed system had suc ceeded in providing — or at least so it

was alleged — for all of the material

necessities of its people and presumably had eliminated the necessity for any pressing concern about the future.

The West was inundated with this

message. Accordingly, those who con

sider material factors to be the only important ones began to see Sweden as having attained the best standard of living possible on the face of the earth.

Such persons absolutely ignore spiritu al goods and the needs of the soul, since

in their minds "these values simply don't exist. .." More and more, they came to see in Sweden an empirical proof that their Utopian dreams could be realized.

Now, however, after decades of a

regime of increasing moral permissive

A long haired policeman trying to break up a street demonstration in Stockholm.

ness and economic socialism, the facts

After 40 years of socialism, Sweden is no longer that much-trumpeted "paradise"

have proved the contrary. An excess

. . .except, perhaps,for criminals and drug addicts.

CRUSADE 19

Agnes. His article is entitled "The Hel lish Swedish Paradise â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Wide-ranging Research into the Country of the Socialist 'Miracle.'"

Yves de Saint-Agnes brings to our attention five significant aspects of Swedish life that clearly show the in habitants of that country cannot brag

about living in a paradise. They are: moral decadence, widespread crime, the evils of socialized medicine, a fanat

ic egalitarianism in the educational sector, and grinding taxation and com puterized control of private lives.

THE FRIGHTFUL GROWTH

ft

OF DRUG USE

In today's Sweden, illegal drug use exists on a frightening scale. The restrooms

of the Kulturhuset (Cultural

Center), located in the heart of Stock holm, have become havens for heroin

addicts. Upon receiving injections there, the drugged addicts leave the place, hallucinating and causing horror and

Drugs circulate freely on the streets of Swedish cities. Authorities make no effort to restrain the drug traffic.

fear in the passers-by, who hastily give

to pedestrians, the police have installed hidden "spy cameras" to film the hap

encourages any number of vices such as sloth, envy, etc.

them a wide berth.

The number of persons using drugs

penings during certain hours. From

illegally has jumped from 737 (in 1965)

sunset to sunrise, they always record

to 20,739 (in 1978).

the same events: drunkards strewn on

Since it is well known that complete licentiousness ultimately leads people to try to find new sensations through drugs, the high incidence of drug use tends to confirm the common impres

the ground and bands of drugged people walking around like robots, openly exchanging their money for envelopes containing drugs. The police

way for the socialist mentality, which

As egalitarian socialism increases,

crimes and disorder multiply...

MASS TRANSIT: A DANGER

Yves de Saint-Agnes reports that he

men monitoring the films must be

has visited Sweden every year since

sion of Sweden as a land characterized

yawning with boredom, so monotonous

by total or nearly total moral per

and repetitive they are...

1953. This is the picture that he gives us: In 1960, it was a crime against so

missiveness.Another confirmation comes from the attitude of the authorities.

THE SCANDALOUS INDIFFER ENCE OF THE AUTHORITIES

The omission and neglect of the po lice

and

administrative

authorities is

blatant.

Since the Swedish Parliament is on

Sergelstorg square, the politicians can. easily observe these disorders. From their tall "crystal palace," the 349

parliamentarians of Ola Ullsten's "liber al" administration are perfectly able to feel and even touch this tragic reality.

They apparently prefer, however, to ignore it and to work on legislation deal

Workers in the Kulturhuset and those

ing with "more serious matters" â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for

responsible for public order turn a blind

example, their recent law prohibiting

eye to the drug traffic there. The police chief limits himself to advising over the radio: "Never stand in the way of these people!" The "people," to which he refers, are the slaves of heroin, ampheta

mine, etc., which he has the duty to

ciety to dump a piece of paper on the streets. Now, splintered glass from bro ken windows covers the streets, becom

ing part of the landscape. In fact, the

thoroughfares, roads, and avei -i this Swedish paradise are littered ,..ih bottles, beer cans, and the most varied

types of junk.

The vehicles of public transportation

parents from physically punishing their

that serve it are constantly and violently vandalized, costing Stockholm's city hall 10 million kronas per year to re

children. . .or the one banishing the sale

pair them.

of toy soldiers! Meanwhile, alcoholism, prostitution, vice, drug traffic, and juvenile crime proceed unchecked...

Many Swedes are afraid to use the mass transit system. The subway cars of

The prohibiting of good or merely innocent things, while allowing full

keep off the streets.

At Sergelstorg, a very large square in

liberty for evil, is characteristic of the

Stockholm are cluttered with people drinking alcohol, spitting on the floor, and uttering obscenities to girls, who

downtown Stockholm, accessible only

liberal mentality, which prepares the

merely mumble their retorts. The walls

20 CRUSADE

of the cars are covered with grafiti

and pornographic drawings.

In 1978 alone, 600 acts of sabotage

were perpetuated against the subway system, many of them directly aimed at derailing the cars.

In the corridors of Ostermalmstorg's

subway station, weird looking youths

specializing in stolen goods approach commuters to sell them Nikon cameras,

pocket calculators, and records. In those

According to the report in Match, multiple violations of law, order, and good customs are being carried out openly with the full knowledge of the police, the government, and the people in general. Moreover these crimes go unpunished, arousing neither protests nor complaints. A complete and alarm

ing inertia exists in the face of the most outrageous manifestations of evil.

Since the goal

of revolutionary

psywar is to conquer the wills of the Western people for Communism, it obviously has made substantial progress in Sweden, where the wills and the ca

pacity of the people to resist has been

so greatly harmed. As a people loses the will to resist, it becomes an easy prey

to any aggression.

International

Communism

stands

prostitutes

ready to take advantage of this dramatic state of affairs. At present, the Soviets

openly solicit passers-by, as if that was

are keeping Sweden balanced between

just normal business.

two options:

same corridors, Swedish

What does this situation signify?

1. The peaceful Finlandization of Sweden.

GENUINE FRUITS OF AN

2. Military aggression.

EVIL TREE

Total revolutionary psywar advances both these options.

The above examples of generalized moral decadence are the fruit of a grow

ing permissiveness, nurtured and in flamed by public coeducational and

THE ADVANCE OF SOCIALISM FOR A PURPOSE

naturalistic sex education forced upon immature and innocent minds.

Contributing to this decadence are the many vices fostered by egalitarian

[landI

Since socialism produces nothing but misery (as has been proven in one coun try after another), the prosperity of Swe

socialism. In his report, Yves de Saint-

den in the 60's must be attributed to the

Agnes notes that exorbitant taxes are driving the most talented Swedes out of the country, that the life of every

free-enterprise portion of the economy.

This prosperity, however, is being

Mun a\ 1

systematically undermined by socialism.

individual is controlled by State com

By 1965, 29% of the Swedish GNP con

puters, that the failures of socialized medicine have produced general frus tration, that the fanatically egalitarian

finance the socialist programs; in 1977,

educational policy has caused count

(53%, if the employer's contribution

less disorders, and that there is system atic disregard for the lives of the old and the incurably ill.

Decades of a regime that has shown

to social security is added.).

sisted of direct and indirect taxes to

the

corresponding

share

was 40%

There remains for the Revolution

only the problem of arranging affairs to speed up the process.

itself to be increasingly liberal in cus

toms and increasingly socialist in eco nomics, a profoundly laicist and egali tarian regime that has planned all as pects of life, has ineluctably brought the people to the anguish and disenchant

Sweden: Balanced between two options â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Finlandization or military aggression.

ARD OF LIVING TO SPEED UP CONVERGENCE

ment of a life without higher motiva

PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE:

tion, without struggle, risks, or glory. . . .

This has led them to seek a way of using their energies in drugs, vice, and crim inal violence so that they may feel the

THE VESTIBULE OF COMMUNISM

emotions of a life of clashes, work,

joys, and sufferings such as is natural to the human condition.

Even graver than the widespread delinquency and moral corruption of Sweden is the lack of reactivity in the authorities and in public opinion.

DEPRESSION OF THE STAND

The current situation clearly shows

The petroleum blackmail engineered

by Russia through its Arab puppets, complementing the baneful effects of socialism on

the Swedish economy,

how much the country has suffered the effects of total revolutionary psycholo gical warfare, a phenomenon opportune

succeeded in the early 70*s in producing

ly depicted by Prof. Plinio Correa de

Ironically, the solution being offered

Oliveira

in

Revolution and Counter

a crisis which culminated in the reces sion of 1974.

for the crisis, produced in large part

revolution (English edition just pub

by socialism, is an even greater dose of

lished and now available.)

socialism, designed to depress the econCRUSADE 21

omy as rapidly as possible. According

by Prof. Plinio Correa de Oliveira in his

to the Swedish Institute, present eco

hook RevolutionandCounter-revolution.

nomic policy is geared to bringing about structural changes entailing "capacity restriction and layoffs." The govern ment is allocating funds to industries such as steel and shipbuilding to "en

able capacity to be reduced..." and . .labor schemes to be arranged to ameliorate the effect for employees." ("The Swedish Economy, Fact Sheets on Sweden, October 1979).

Accordingly, the 53% of GNP in taxation being levied on the Swedes can be expected to increase even more. The decrease in production being engineered means a decrease in goods and services, labor unrest, and a magnification of

tionary ideal to restore the Christian Civilization that is the source of its

grandeur.

WHAT COURSE FOR SWEDEN?

Will any heed Our Lady of Fatima, Young Swedes need merely to gaze

who, like the Coat of Arms of Sweden,

upon the Coat of Arms of the country,

calls for the restoration of Christian

with its four militant golden lions, to

Civilization?

discern the spirit of courage, elegance, and uprightness that is a reflection of the true Swedish soul fructified by the refulgent influence of Christian Civil ization.

This Coat of Arms, which is totally opposed to the spirit of the Revolu tion, beckons to young Swedes to be

Indeed, the defeat of the Revolution

and the victory of Christian Civiliza tion are assured by the majestic and en

thusiastic promise given by Her at Fatima in 1917: "Finally My Immaculat;,p Heart will triumph!"

come animated with its counter-revolu

the crisis in all areas. A series of strikes

and lockouts has already brought Sweden to the edge of an industrial

standstill. "The cost in lost production has been estimated by one employers' association at $120 million or $140

million a day." (The New York Times, May 3, 1980).

Obviously, high taxation, the planned restriction of production, layoffs, and

strikes are working together like fingers on the same hand to accelerate the de

pression of the Swedish standard of eco nomic life. It is a process which is feed ing on itself to bring Sweden ever closer to the economic misery that exists behind the iron curtain so that Sweden

can be converged with the Communist

world in an almost pwf^ess manner.

Thus socialism arid the present permissivist stage of liberalism move inexor ably toward the same end: the weaken

ing of the wills of the Swedish people and the throttling of the production of the country to facilitate its conquest by Communism, pacifically if possible but violently if necessary. The communists

will not lack resourcefulness in taking advantage

of these conditions, con

ditions which they have in large measure

promoted.

Liberalism, socialism, and Commun

ism are but stages in a single revolution

ary process that has been gathering force for nearly five centuries and that

has as its goal the destruction of Chris tian Civilization. The roots, principles, and dynamics of this process, and how it can be defeated, are clearly delineated 22 CRUSADE

THE COAT OF ARMS OF SWEDEN "THE GREAT COAT OF ARMS"

Picturesque and the Real

in Daily Life Mm

Carl Spitzweg is a relatively little

endowed with artistic, psychological, or

from the wall to the wooden garret.

known Bavarian painter of the last

sociological sense to analyze his water-

century (1808-1885). Or at least so it

colors.

would appear, for his name, like that of

The chimney of the wood stove is used as a hat hanger for the top hat of the poet. On the wall, under the chimney,

Hector Roesler Franz, another German

a nail holds his coat.

What is most delightful to the ob

painter of the turn of the century, is

server, however, is the contrast between

not mentioned in the celebrated books

the misery and prosaism of the whole

on the history of art.

Nevertheless, the paintings of the

Spitzweg was equally successful in

ambience and the attitude of the poet,

two artists, which have many features

depicting the picturesque scenes of daily life, though the ambiences he painted were quite different from that of Rome.

wrapt in admiration, and oblivious to

in common, are of such a quality as to entitle them to appear in manuals of

who is immersed in his own work,

his surroundings. Thick volumes leaning

ting observation.

Roesler specialized in painting scenes typical of the Rome of his time. Be

century Germany.

In the first picture - one of the

against the wall or piled in disorder beside him give the impression of a poet who is absorbed in his work.

And in order to give emphasis to attitude of the poet, the painter pluv

artist's most well known and appre

his writing pen in his mouth, because

tween 1870 and 1907, he executed 120 water colors, now exhibited in the

ciated â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Spitzweg presents, with a fine sense of irony, the hardships in the life

right one he is counting the metrics of

the history of art. Indeed, few painters have depicted the picturesque in daily life with so much charm and penetra

All of his themes are taken from the

daily life that was typical of the small cities and countryside of nineteenth

his two hands are occupied; with the

Museum of Palazzo Braschl. His works

of a man of letters. Its title, "The Poor

his verses, while the left one holds

became popular in our times, especial ly in the Eternal City, through a series of picture albums and postcards entitled

Poet," expresses very well the idea that the painter wished to convey. The poet lives in a miserable attic without

the paper...

Roma Sparita (The Rome That Has

even a bed, his mattress being simply

Vanished).

stretched out on the floor. Above the

Although he was not an Italian,

head of the poet, which is wrapped in

Roesler successfully depicted with his

a white night cap, an open umbrella

brush aspects of the daily life of Rome

is perched, presumably to protect him

in the last century; and he did it in a lively, fascinating, and even delight ful manner. It is indeed a delight for one

from some uncomfortable leak in the

The second painting, entitled "Art

roof. . .Near the small window, a cloth

and Science," depicts the enchanting square in a small German town. At the

is hanging from a wire that stretches

CRUSADE 23

left, alongside a stone fountain where

she has gone to draw water, a woman, carrying her water pitcher, watches the

him imagine himself living in the small German town so well depicted by Spitzweg's brush. Instead of being

work of an artist above her. Sitting on

disturbed by streets agitated by the

chological, and moral pollution result ing from antinatural concentrations,

piness of an organic, natural life. Finally,

being freed from the physical, psy

a scaffold raised to the third floor of

feverish movement of pedestrians and

unbridled

the prominent building in the back

modern vehicles, the reader would find

modern transit of large urban areas,

ground, he is painting the Blessed Vir gin with the Child Jesus, on its wall.

square that we have described above;

the

calmness reflected

in

the small

On the basis of the style of its windows

instead of being frustrated by the arti

and the turret in its corner, the build

ficial life in the modern cities, he would

ing seems to belong to the baroque per

enjoy the temperate pleasures and hap

iod. Its roof, with the small window

just below it, is characteristically baroque. A ledge separates the upper portion of the small tower from its

central body, which displays a large window

adorned

with

flowers. The

turret has another ledge too, below

which one can see its gracious base.

At the window of the attic, which is

also embellished with typically German flowers, a feminine figure is interested ly observing the work of the painter

and the movement in the square.

Almost directly over the fountain

where the woman pauses before filling her pitcher, one can discern a pictur esque emblem â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a device for designating old inns characteristic of several Euro

pean countries. The emblem is held by an artistic pole of wrought iron, and displays a two headed eagle inside of a circle. On the ground, pigeons are strolling, a very common event in the squares of many cities.

A book peddler has erected his stand

in the middle of the square. In it one can see several books as well as some

prints hanging from wires. As a finish ing touch in a painting filled with so many savory details, an expressive personage, dressed in a top hat and tails,

is examining a book the peddler has offered him. One has the impression that slender man must be one of the intellectual

a

celebrities of the town:

respected professor, a celebrated

writer, a doctor, or perhaps a lawyer famous only in that small, secluded corner of Germany...

Perhaps our reader lives in one of

those huge modern cities where hustle

and bustle, pollution, and artificiality of life are mixed from the most dif

ferent standpoints so as to interpene trate the whole environment. If so, let 24 CRUSADE

industrialization, and

the

he could immeree himself in a whole

some ambience that is preserved both materially and morally.

In which of these two worlds would

you rather live, dear reader?

rMUflJ

PROPHETS, MARTYRS, SAINTS, and

HEROES tMtlMtlilftllllltlllilllltllllllMXtl

M'gtfMWtWtmmnwni

The present Soviet-Cuban aggression against the African continent has been prepared by decades of infiltration,

blood by a frail woman in Northeastern wabaka, faithful bride of Christ, who

many white hostages and would Ku.

propaganda, and communist inspired

gave her life to preserve the kingdom

them without exception if the central

terrorist acitivity. The lives of the Afri can people have been systematically disrupted, the land has been devastated, and religious and shrines of the Church

of Christ in Africa without spot or stain.

have been desecrated.

IN STANLEYVILLE

Zaire. She is Sister Anuarita of Baf-

and truly noble and transcendent counter-revolutionary triumphs. One of the most heroic and legendary of these,

government in Leopoldville, now Kin shasa, did not halt the advance of its troops.

THE REIGN OF TERROR

These assaults have at times, by

way of reaction, providentially called forth great proofs of love of the Church

On November 3, Gbenye declared in a radio broadcast that he still

The situation in Stanleyville wor sened daily, producing serious shortages of food and water. Looters and thieves

In November of 1964, the Simbas

unleashed a reign of terror in Stanley ville, now

called Kisangani (north

eastern Zaire). Commissars Mulele and

one which will continue to reverberate

Gbenye terrorized the eastern province, seizing hostages and brutalizing the

across the centuries, w^ written in

people.

continuously roamed the neighborhoods, violating the homes of the people.

Everywhere, the enemies of the tyrants were summarily condemned to die;

the death sentences were executed by forcing the victims to drink gasoline and then blowing them up alive...

CRUSADE 25

THE BELGIANS SAVE

the Belgians assaulted the street and nearly all the hostages were saved.

THE HOSTAGES

THE REBELS ARRIVE IN BAFWABAKA

This time the Simbas were defeated.

terror filtered to the outside world,

THE DEATH DANCE

On Sunday, November 29, a rebel group commanded by "Colonel"Olombe

the Belgians determined to send in 600 airborne troops. On November 24, around 6 o'clock in the morning, U.S. Air Force transport planes dropped the parachutists over Stanleyville.

Besides themselves with fury, the Simbas hastily pushed 250 hostages into Sergeant Kintele Avenue and made them kneel down."If the Belgians come, you will all die," shouted "Major" Babu, a former boxer and drug addict

CONTINUES

reached

As scattered news of the reign of

who commanded the rebel troops.

However, as he shouted "kill them!".

the

missionary outpost of

Bafwabaka. There he would find a con The withdrawal of the Simbas was

terrible. Missionaries were assassinated,

nuns raped, missions burned down in the jungle. In Paulis, more than 4000 Africans were executed by firing squads.

Almost everyone who knew how to read and write was tortured to death.

An old missionary had all of his bones broken, one by one,by rifle stocks.

Twenty women died under terrible

vent of nuns of African origin, the Sis ters of the Holy Family, consisting of 36 nuns, novices and aspirants. The community is called "Jamaa Taratifu" in Swahili.

On that day, one of the members of the community, Sister Clementine Anuarita, was celebrating her twentyfifth birthday. It was going to be her last...

tortures.

SISTER ANUARITA:"THE SUN

SHINE AT YOUR DISPOSAL"

Sister Anuarita was baptized at the age of six, receiving the name of Alfonsine. Those who knew her in her

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of visiting the poor and the sick.

As was common among African children, she began while still quite young helping her parents at home: drawing water from the well, gathering wood, and cooking a few things on the stove. Like her companions of the same age, she feared the snakes she encoun tered on the way to the well, and en joyed playing with puppies and goats in the village. She was a typical Afri can child.

But Alfonsine Anuarita was uncom

monly intelligent. Because ot after leaving elementary school,

c

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went to high school in Bafwabaka with the Sisters of the Holy Family. Convent

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already an aspirant. In 1959, she made her first vows, receiving the name of

Sister Clementine. She began working as a teacher, and after a complementarycourse in 1963, became director of the

girls' boarding school where she her self had been a student a few years earlier.

Within the community of sisters she was known as "the sunshine at your 26 CRUSADE

ing: "This would be a grave sin. I'd

ism. Forcing a smile, he quipped:

rather have you kill me!"

"Comrades, I killed an enemy of the

the sisters in charge of maintenance to help them pick up wood, to fish in the

Held as she was by brute force, she turned to her sisters: "Pray with me, help me. I'd rather die than commit

Revolution. Two rebels step forward with their spears, piercing Sister Anuar ita's body three or four times. In addi

Nepoko River, and to wash and iron

such a sin!"

disposal." She was always serene, joyful, and ready for whatever was necessary. After school, she went with

clothes.

Olombe tried to pull her into his

tion, Olombe shot the dead sister in the head.

At

first,

Anuarita's

sisters were

On many Sundays, the sisters and students were able to enjoy cake and

car, but the nun defended herself with

all her strength. "Let me go! I am ready

petrified. Then during her martyrdom,

other deserts. In the notebook of Sis

to die here. I will never be your woman!"

one of them began to chant the "Mag nificat." Trembling, and with tears in

ter Anuarita — now part of the materi al of her canonization process in Rome — cake and desert recipes can be found

"DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP

besides texts of meditation and her

IN VICTORY"

personal notes. To bring joy to the boarding students, she always man aged to find new recipes somewhere.

On that November 29, Sister Anuarita

had prepared something for her twentyfifth birthday. But everything would turn out differently...

The "colonel" went mad. He dealt

heavy blows to her face and body with his rifle stock, causing her to fall to the ground, her face covered with blood.

He knew no mercy, striking like a mad man the dilacerated body inside the white habit. The voice of Sister Anuar

"I'D RATHER DIE

THAN COMMIT SUCH A SIN!"

Suddenly, from the jungle came

ita became weaker: "Go on beating, I have made my decision." And then breathing forth her last sigh, she whis pered: "May God forgive you, you don't know what you do..."

the Simbas in drab olive trucks. They

The situation of the "colonel" was

stopped in front of the convent, their brakes squeaking. The rebels, most of whom were drunk or high on hashish, staggered toward the convent, shout ing and waving automatic rifles, long

becoming disagreeable. He had just "finished" with a defenseless young woman and this — even in the eyes of the rebels — was not an act of hero

their eyes, the others joined her: "... and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour."

The rebels, disconcerted and speech less, ran away in a desperate flight.

"Sister Anuarita has protected us," one of the nuns exclaimed. "The mar

tyrs of Uganda and Saint Mary Goretti have always been her models. Now she has followed both of them," they wrote on November 30, 1964, the eve of All Saints' Day. If the Church in eastern Zaire is

able to celebrate its hundredth jubilee in 1980, Africa will have a new Saint.

The missionary Bishop of Catarzi Uvira (in the South of the Kivu pro vince) affirmed: "Sister Anuarita will be

for us a powerful intercessor with God, so that He may help us to finally attain peace in this country."

knives, and spears in the air. At "Col onel" Olombe's orders, they pushed the nuns into the trucks, and in a few

COMMUNISTS TO CELEBRATE LUTHER

minutes the column resumed its march.

Sister Anuarita tried to assauge the fear of the other sisters with a few words.

After some miles of travel through

Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker of East Germany will direct preparations for the government cele

This event tends to confirm a theses of the book Revolution and Counter

bration in 1983 of the 500th anniver

tion is a 500 year old process con ing of three great revolutions:

the jungle, the vehicles halted at a Simba camp. Other trucks drove up.

The Mulele soldiery launched out

sary of the birth of Martin Luther. A

against the sisters, snatching their pectoral crosses from them and ut tering savage and obscene insults...

government committee made up of more than 100 leading East German functionaries will be organized to plan

Pseudo-reformation, the French Revolu tion, and Communism. In the words of

cultural festivities in connection with

birthday on November 10 in Wittenberg.

Protestantism...the anarchical yearnings of Communism were already implicit.

From the point of view of his explicit formulations, one may say that Luther

According to a report by the Lutheran

was no more than Luther. Nevertheless,

Finally, they resume the painful trip through the jungle, arriving by nightfall in Isoro. "Colonel" Olombe ordered everyone out of the trucks.

Approaching Sister Anuarita, he said in a hoarse voice: "Tonight you willl be my woman." Anuarita shook her

head, signifying "no, never." The furi ous "colonel" struck her violently and

then pulled her to himself. Anuarita

the anniversary. Events will culminate

in a festival marking the apostate's

revolution, namely, that the Revolu

•

the author: "In the first denials of

World Federation, "the East German

all the tendencies, all the states of soul,

authorities have long claimed Luther

and all the imponderables of the Luther

as part of the Communist State's cul

an explosion already bore within them,

tural heritage, calling him a German revolutionary whose reformist ideas

in an authentic and full but implicit way, the spirit of Voltaire and Robes

made him a forerunner of radical philos

pierre, of Marx and Lenin." (Revolu tion and Counterrevolution, pages 45-

ophers such as Karl Marx."

46).

resisted with all her strength, shout CRUSADE 27

ENTER SEVILLE When you arrive in Seville at night fall, try to stroll slowly on the Triana

Bridge across Guadalquiver River. It is then that the city will show you her soul, hidden in some secluded place.

You will see the calm and temper

ate waters of the opulent river on whose surface appear shadows which evoke epic feats which took place seven cen turies ago. And you will, as it were, hear faraway war cries and the rumble of martial calvacades.

If you lift up your eyes, it will seem to you that such proclamations are com

ing from behind the silhouettes of tow ers and spires that shoot upward toward a cloudy sky.

When the river with its enchanting illusions of words and

colors makes

you stroll further, you will pass from the bridge and come to a narrow, wind

ing street. It will make you believe that those towers were another decep

tion of the magic river and that the grand things you saw and heard really didn't happen. Note, however, that from

unknown

cloisters, bowers of

climbing roses at times spring forth, displaying abundant colors that re-

Seville and the Triana Bridge from across the Guadaquiver River. fleet a neither able to the red

great, ardent nostalgia which the evening nor the moon are subdue. The hidden mystery of roses and the fascinating tale is

beyond those white walls and the fresh

and perfumed patios where the moon light shines.

ons to you with a lantern to stay in the neighborhood. Here and there it would

tell you how the stirps of Seville grew and challenged whole new worlds, be cause they had grasped in these streets the attraction of adventure.

What adventure? The street finally

Now you will suspect that the towers

lets you pass, as so many others will too,

are real, that you will find them along that the battles were not a dream but

but not without first presenting you with a jasmine perfumed breeze. Go here and there. Another quarter will

reminiscences.

receive you with the aroma of orange

your way as you enter Seville, and

But the street â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tired of solitude,

daydreams, and guitar music â&#x20AC;&#x201D; beck

blossoms and old fashioned greetings.

On

high

porticos are engraved the

A picturesque lamp and window with The famous Giralda Tower.

ornamental grill work on an ancient street in Seville.

1

Ferdinand III, who reconquered Seville from the Moors an.d made it the seat of his court. Here one can admire the

Spanish sense according to which death is understood to be the sacred ally of the just. And what a just one! Death car ried off the soul of the warrior king,

but left his in'corrupt body, which is now before you. In the age old and persistent profile of this face, you dis cern the signs of his thought, sancti ty, government, and heroic deeds.

Note, however, that the night is already far gone, and there are no people in the streets, where the smell of lighted candles spreads. It is Good Friday. The dawn approaches. Afar, you see the shadow of a long procession.

A voice sings: "God gazes on thee and gazes once again.

And Seville sighs for thee,

A

Queen of Heaven serene;

Virgin de la Macarena our souls are saved

by thy sacred tears,

by thy sacred teats, by thy sacred tears."

V

n The Virgin of Hope, known as the Macarena, the most famous statue of Our Lady in Seville.

stories of many links and continuities and of feats performed with the same sword down through the centuries.

Hadn't the river already told you? Who could recount all of these riches?

Don't be walking head down and pensive at this point. La Giralda rises vertically right in front of you. The

reach the apex where the Guardian Angel stands in weathered green bronze.

This is the high point of Seville's panorama, from which flow and reflow all the graces and legends of the city, like water from a bronze fountain in

a flowery patio.

clouds have become thicker. But you

Alongside of Giralda is the cathe dral, the largest church in Christendom

will be able to gaze at length at the re

after Saint Peter's in Rome. Its builders

k

liefs and windows, whose unexpected

said: "Let us build such a church, so

curves surprise one as they stand in

great a one that those who see it fin

relation to the massive, square upright

ished will take us for madmen." In the

ness

coffer of the Royal Chapel are the il

Confraternity of penitents in their typical garb on a nocturnal procession.

lustrious remains of the king Saint,

In the background, the Giralda.

carried

to a dizzying height.

There on high, dome ascends dome to

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of Sao Paulo Brazil, bishops, priests and clergy from 42 countries applauded the armed revolution that took

place in Nicaragua as a model for other Latin American countries. What serious implications does this event have

THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL

A symbol of faith, combat, love and the

for the national security of the United States? Page 7.

conscience of the city. Page 25.

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TITO THE PUPPET The American TFP enthusi

astically joins in the Captive Nations Week Parade and

Rally in New

Kings, presidents, vice-presidents, com munist chiefs, religious leaders, and digni

taries from around the world gathered to bury the tyrant, Tito. Highly praised and promoted as an independent spirit who

York City.

had broken with his Soviet masters, his

Page 2.

image was one of many faces manufac tured by the communists in the psycho logical war being waged against the West.

Page 2 7.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO

THE

PROMISED

LIBERTY

OF

1789?

Before the French Revolution, the indi

vidual lived freely in the intimacy of his own

home

without

fear

of

excessive

State interference.

Today, the

ST. JOAN OF ARC

l.iberty

revolutionaries

in

promised by the

1789

has spawned

the technological, all- seeing eye of Government. Now Big Brother sees,

records and catalogues each and every detail of a citizen's life. Page 23. □ □ □

No parallel adventure exists in any other country

of

Christendom.

France—im

mersed in misery and abandoned by those who governed her—saw a young peasant girl arise to command its troops, winning victory for France and, after a shameful condemnation, sanctity for herself.

4.

EDITOR: John Hart

Volume 10, Number 3

July-Sept. 1980

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Thomas Bell

Eugene Kenyon Murillo Galliez

The American TFP Supports the Captive Nations

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Edward Thompson Gary Isbell

St. Joan of Arc â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Maid of Orleans

CIRCULATION DIRECTOR:

Gerald Campbell FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS:

Special Report: Subversion to'the South

Paris: Arturo Hlebniklen Rome: Paulo H. Chaves Montreal: Michel Renaud

What Ever Happened to the Liberty Promised in 1789?

Sao Paulo: Jose Lucio A. Correa Buenos Aires: Jorge M. Storni Caracas: Pedro Morazzani

Santiago: Jose A. Ureta The Gothic Cathedral

Montevideo: Raul de Corral

Bogota: Julio Hurtado Quito: Juan M. Montes

Tito the Puppet

La Paz: Julio Bonilla

ARISE O LORD! WHY SLEEPEST THOU?

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OUR COVER: The American

TTP participating in the Cap tive Nations Rally in New York City.

The American TFP

at the Captive Nations Rallp Wearing their distinctive bright red capes with the

familiar rampant lion emblem, sixty members and collaborators of the American TFP swelled the ranks

of the colorfully dressed Captive Nations' participants in the 22nd Annual Captive Nations' parade in July.

Three members of the American TFP each carried an enormous 10-ft. TFP standard emblazoned with a

golden lion and the words: Tradition, Family and Property.(One standard carried this wording in Polish.)

All during the march along Fifth Avenue to Cen

tral Park, the TFP members kept up a constant bar rage of slogans and songs that attracted the attention

of the many thousands of New Yorkers and tourists.

The following Sunday, the TFP also participated in the closing ceremonies of Captive Nations Week that were held at the base of the Statue of Liberty. At this event, one of the TFP members addressed the assembled crowd.

Opposite page (left to right): Assembling in front of New York City's Saint Patrick's Cathedral; parading up Fifth Avenue; on the way to Central Park.

Below; Making an impact in Central Park - On stage and talking with other Captive Nations Rally participants.

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THE MAID

OF

ORLEANS

St. Joafi of Arc: Virgw, warrior, martyr and saint.

Some 300 knights in medieval garb bearing arms and shields festively proceeded in a great equestrian parade

through

the

pathways of northern

France until they were finally received b.\- the public in Orleans. Crossing the

l^ont Royal, they headed, accompanied

anniversary of the miraculous liberation of Orleans by the Maid of Donremy.

The Joan of Arc Center, headed by the well-known historian Regine Pernoud brought together the learned from the

ty was solemnly proclaimed

he

Catholic Church when she was canon

ized by Pope Benedict XV on May 9, 1920 in Saint Peter's Basilica.

main European universities as well as those of other countries.

by the ringing of the bells, for the house

where Joan of Arc herself had lodged The example of Saint Joan of Arc

in days of yore.

Heroes and above all Saints, who are « •*

Thus it was that the public celebra

tions jointly sponsored by the Joan of

illustrates how

on

certain

occasions

heroes par excellence, generally become

Divine Providence leads men and na

better known, their memory acquiring more luster with the passage of the

tions by acting directly and visibly through his Saints, just as it led the

Arc Center and the International Col

centuries. Such is the case with the ex

chosen people in the Old Testament

loquium of Medieval History began as

traordinary virgin of Donremy, unjustly

by acting through the Prophets. Such

part (jf a commemoration of the 550th

burned at the stake in 1431. Her sancti

a one was Saint Joan of Arc who led

4 CRUSADE

a nation, France, in a time of crisis.

participated in her condemnation ap pear.

On June 11, 1455, Pope Calixtus III

Siege and Entrance of Orleans

officially authorized the revision of the canonical proceedings in the case of the holy warrior.

The city of Orleans was the first to be favored by Joan's military victories.

Besieged by the English in October of 1428, its people would have been over

come by hunger if the Saint had not ar rived there in April of 1429. She was leading a convoy of foodstuffs and managed to pass through the encircling army.

That day men-at-arms, burghers, wo men, and children received her with

The decision of the Holy See was

a natural consequence of the consen sus, and in some cases of the remorse,

that little by little was taking shape all over France. It was clearly admitted that the Maid of Donremy had been condemned in spite of her obvious innocence.

The

chronicles relate that Saint

Joan of Arc, refusing to accept the fitness of the judges, appealed to the Pope at a certain point, declaring

lighted torches as if they were receiving some envoy of Heaven. The long wait was ended and all felt comforted by the

judgment. But in violation of all the

certainty that they would soon be freed. The liberation took place on May 7, with the capture of the fort of Tourelles that protected the bridge

tion, her appeal, by a formal decision of Bishop Cauchon, was not even registered.

to Orleans. The English scattered without entering combat, while the French soldiers were filled with courage

Guillaume de Estouteville, the papal legate, had gathered information about

and enthusiasm.

the matter all over France. It was now

outstanding features a moral solidi

a matter of elucidating the causes and

ty and a certain joie de vivre. This

and dedicated only three of those years

circumstances

aspect of her character was shown

to her public life, Joan of Arc left a

pronounced 20 years before.

Although she lived only 19 years

that she submitted herself filially to his rules of the tribunals of the Inquisi

Even

before Calixtus Ill's order,

of

the

condemnation

Re-enactvient of St. Joan's triumphal entry into the city of Otleans.

even during the monotonous circum

profound mark on the history of France.

She is one of the most cited personal

As the bells of the Cathedral of

stances of her imprisonment, for her

Notre Dame of Paris rang in Novem

ities of her time. For example, history

ber 1455, the first solemn audience

anguish was never sufficient to shake her psychological and mental balance.

has left us the whole documentation

took place. Then a peasant woman

of her trial, the record of her post mortem rehabilitation, as well as many

by her sons, came walking through the

bent under the weight of her age, led

The Joan of Arc Center in Orleans

nave of the church to answer simply and firmly the questions that were

presently has a library of 7,000volumes,

posed to her by various prelates. She

works that were written about her later.

as well as archives, microfilms, and

was Isabelle Romee, mother of Joan

slides that enable the public to know this chapter of French history better.

of Arc.

It is housed in the place where Joan of Arc stayed immediately after the liber ation of Orleans. The building, which was mutilated in the last century, was restored to its primitive form in 1940.

out in Rouen, since it was decided

Testimonies

In her book, Viet et Mort de Jeanne

d'Arc (Hachette, Paris, 1953), Regine Pernoud transcribes the principal testi monies given in this process.

Boisguillaume explains to the judges

The other hearings were carried

that "he

had

heard

it said

tha

should take place in the same city

those guilty of the death of Joan i. a most shameful death." For example, Nicholas Midy contracted leprosy a

that had been the scene of her con

few days after the Saint's execution,

demnation.

and Bishop Cauchon died suddenly while he was shaving.

that the process of her rehabilitation

One can imagine the emotion of

many people in those little cities of

Jean

Messieu,

remember

in

well

turn,

related:

that frequently

fifteenth

After Her Martyrdom

heralds announced the installation of

several questions, each one different

the tribunal and convoked "all those

from the other, were put to Joan at

A topic that the rich documenta tion of the Joan of Arc Center enables one to examine in detail is her process of vindication, in which a great num

ber of the witnesses and judges that

century France when the

"I

Vindicated 20 Years

Maid"

the same time. She, displeased, would

to give their testimony there.

Her childhood acquaintances con firmed, one by one, Joan's extraordin ary virtues, emphasizing as her most

say: "Ask the questions one at a time."

who

had

known

Joan, the

And I marvelled how she could answer

the subtle and captious questions put to her, questions that a man of letters CRUSADE 5

pronounce, decree, and

would have found difficult to answer."

declare that

the aforementioned process of con

Isambart de la Pierre tells what he

heard from an English soldier who par

demnation, stained with fraud, calum

ticularly detested the warrior-shepherd ess and who had sworn that he himself

ny, and iniquity, with manifest contra diction and error of fact and of law,

would hurl the torch that would light

including the abjuration, the execu

the bonfire for her death. When that

tion, and all its consequences, were

man saw Joan, already suffocated by

and are null, without value or effect,

the fire, cry out the name of Jesus for

and void..."

the last time, he was seized with terror.

A copy of the articles of accusa

111'^

So he went to a tavern near the old

tion that served as the basis for the

market place of Rouen, drinking a bit to recover his strength. The soldier did not hide his repentance, for as he he himself declared to Isambart, "he

process of condemnation was sym bolically ripped.

That day a proclamation was heard at the exact place of Joan of Arc's exe cution, Rouen's old market place. Im

was very much afraid of being damned

mediately afterwards, a solemn cortege

because he had burnt a holy woman."

moved through the streets of the city!

said, "Joan was a holy woman" and as

Glorification

There is no parallel to the epopee The adversaries of Joan of Arc, those who had condemned her, could

of Joan of Arc in any other country

not manage to justify their position.

Accordingly, after a few months, the process

of her vindication

reached

its end.

Officers of the law on

fixed

Q

notices

House where St. Joan stayed in the

troops â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one who would be led from

city of Orleans

the fires of execution to the altars.

Four centuries would elapse before

the doors of the churches sum

moning all persons who had anything to testify against Joan's rehabilitation.

Ursins, Archbishop of Reims, read with great solemnity the final report: "We, seated in our tribunal and hav

No one came forward. . .

The 7th of July, 1456, Jean de

ing only God before our eyes.. . say.

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6 CRUSADE

of Christendom. The France of her time, in misery and abandoned by its govern ors, saw a young woman come out of the countryside and rise to command its

she would come to shine in the firma

ment of the Saints of the Church,

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CRUSADE 7

Subversion: Prologue to "Finlandizing" the United States?

"We have suffered a great

defeat

without war, the consequences of which will travel far with us. ...And do not

suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning."

(Winston

Churchill in the House of

lyn/in

after Chamberlain's return

INTERNACIONALISilO

Commons

from Munich in 1939.)

It is a mostly forgotten (perhaps hidden) fact of history that Prime

PRDIETASIO!

Minister Neville Chamberlain's attempt

to appease Hitler was due not only to cowardice but also because England, at that time, was no longer the great politi cal, economic and military power that she had once been. Lacking courage, she sought concession. Lacking a

i

national will, she engendered war.

Can it be said that the United States

of today is much like England of the 30's? Weakened by years of "detente" with the Soviet Union and, in the face

of the communist advance all over the,

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globe, the United States satisfied it self with a stalemate in Korea in the '50's; abandonment of Vietnam in the '60's; dishonor in Iran and a timid

response to the tragedy of Afghanistan

A march for international sohdarity ofthe 'working classes in Latin America

of our current day. Is it any wonder that the U.S. has a shaky hold on the title of the anti-communist superpower of the West?

In view of this weakened (albeit,

not weak) position of the United States

as the guardian of liberty for those countries who still want to resist com

munism, there is a growing alarm about the advances of communism in our own

\

hemisphere. Not only is there cause for concern about the communist threat in

the Caribbean area; but the strong Soviet presence there raises the possibil ity of the establishment of "bases of subversion" on the entire South Ameri

can continent as well. These "bases of

subversion" have, as

their

ultimate

goal, to disrupt what has been termed "the soft underbelly of the United States" and thereby impede or cut off

(i

the supply of oil and other raw materi

als vital to our country, that originates from or passes through this area to the south.

PLO leader Yasser Arafat (center) with Sandinista leaders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an international connection?

This article analyzes a case in point â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

starting to play an important role in

the Sandinist takeover in Nicaragua,

the events that will shape the future

showing how that "base of subversion"

of the United States.

is not only having immediate effects on neighboring Central American coun

What has been the official U.S. reac tion to the Sandinist scenario?

reception from the American public.

Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs, William Bowlder; casting him self

as

a

latter-day "Chamberlain"

tries, but has also found receptive ears

Recently, the Congress of the United

said, on April 9 of this year while speaking to the Pan American Society

in countries of South America that have

States authorized (somewhat belatedly)

in New York, that the situation in

been traditionally friendly to the United

$75 million dollars for the Sandinist

Nicaragua is not yet defined and "that

States. Through its links with the Soviet

there still exists the alternative that the

Moscow-supported international terror

government in Nicaragua. This was just part of a previously, approved $156 million aid package whose final pay

ist organizations, little Nicaragua is

ment is waiting for a more favorable

Union (via Castro's Cuba) and with

8 CRUSADE

revolution can advance toward an open and pluralistic government based on a mixed economy between the state and

Partners in revolution â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

National Guard at the height of the

Bishop of Grenada(cen

struggle.

For the effect on the United States,

ter); Ortega of Nicara

the events taking place in Nicaragua

gua with Fidel Castro

under the guidance of the Soviets and its surrogate, Castro's Cuba, must be viewed in terms of the Soviet's total "strateev of denial."

"For the Soviets, the Third World is

an integral part of their ideological design of the world as they now per ceive it and as they theoretically expect it to be with the unfolding of history; it is a vital component in the correla tion of world forces that in the Soviet

view implies a shift in the balance of world power in their favor...It has be come the instrumentality for expand ing and globalizing Soviet influence and power, and for reducing or deny ing that of the United States, the West ..."(Congressional Research Service.)

The "strategy of denial" is the man

euver by which the United States is "denied" needed

resources (oil, raw

materials, etc) that the Third World countries provide. The current "energy crisis" caused by the Arab world's manipulation of the oil supplies is real

private enterprise," adding that "the

enemy and stated that all who were not

decisive factor for the future will be

in accord with the new unity "are in

work. The"strategy of denial" is in ac

actions not ideology." {Focus on Latin

the hands of the enemy."

cordance with the Leninist doctrine of

America, Vol. I, May 1980).

While

capable

the

Assistant Secretary is

of dismissing action from

ideology, others are not.

During the latter part of February, Maurice Bishop, the Marxist prime min

ister of Grenada, visited Nicaragua and the two governments signed a declara

The intention of communism to use

the Sandinista success story as a spring board to similar successes America is obvious.

in

Latin

Shortly after, as if to emphasize the direction in which Nicaragua was head

ing in the May Day celebration in Man

During the early part of March, an International Solidarity Conference

agua, where enormous pictures of Marx and Lenin were highly visible, even to the casual observer, junta mem ber Daniel Ortega attacked the United States as "our enemy." He also said that Nicaragua "had won the right to have

with Nicaragua was held in Managua.

relations with the socialist camp...

tion offering full support to the "inde pendence of Puerto Rico and Belize and to the heroic Salvadorean people."

Representatives from seventy-five organ-

with Algeria, Mozambique, Angola, and

izarions from the Americas and Europe

other African countries, with Vietnam." {Focus on Latin America, Vol. I, June

were

in

attendance. The Conference

fully supported the Nicaraguan revolu tionary process and, in a final docu

1980).

ment, it was stated that the Nicaraguan

scandalous statments and events that

revolution can only be understood and interpreted in the context of the fight of the peoples of Central America

communists in the Nicaraguan govern

and

from tyranny. {Focus on Latin Ameri

on May 21, continued to hold his pre vious position that the revolution in

ca, Vol. I, April 1980).

Nicaragua "continues being compatible

the Caribbean for the liberation

Following this meeting, at a rally held in mid-March in Grenada to cele

brate the overthrow of the ex-prime minister, Erica Giary, The Nicaraguan

Notwithstanding

capitalism {Backgrounder, No. 104).

According to Lenin, advanced capitalist states dominate the less developed countries in a form of economic imperi alism. This "neo-colonialism, is, at least

in Lenin's theory, necessary for the capitalist states because their own in ternal economic situation becomes more

unstable and because this "exploitation"

demonstrated the growing power of the ment, Assistant

Secretary

Bowlder,

with an open society, pluralistic, of mixed economy, and that the decisive factor in the evolution of the country

wll be 'acts, not ideology.'"

According to a UPl report. Bowlder

along with Prime Minister Manley of

defended the necessity of U.S. aid,

Jamaica and Bishop of Grenada, com

saying that "we have no intention to

mitting themselves to carry out a "new

abandon

member Daniel Ortega condemned Yankee Imperialism calling it the main

imperialism as "the highest stage of

these and other

Junta members issued a joint statement

regional unity" and to aid the revolu tionary movements in the area. Junta

evidence of how well this strategy can

the field

â&#x2013;

to the Cubans."

:â&#x2013;

1-

'

Mr. Bowlder's resolve rings somewhat hollow since the Administration, in ef

fect, abandoned the field when U.S.

"Che" Guevara -- a revolutionary model

military aid was cut off from Somoza's

for Latin Amenca.

CRUSADE 9

I

of the Third World countries allows the

capitalist ruling class to provide material

benefits for their own exploited workers.

T

This, according to Marxist doctrine,

helps to defuse their revolutionary potential.

Following this theory, Soviet theoriticians predicted that the United States

would soon face shortages of the raw materials that were available in Latin

America. Application of this theory received a serious sec back when the

Soviet-backed Allende government of Chile fell in 1973. In the view of the So

viets, Allende cried to move "too far,

too fast." He had not sufficiently neu tralized opposition in the armed forces,

the economy and in public opinion. Ac cordingly, the Soviets came to believe that

"wars

of

national

Chile: Students protest against Allende's programs

liberation"

would be vital alternative instruments

to secure their designs in Latin America.

In an article in 1974, Boris N. Ponomarev. Head of the International De

partment of the Central Committee

'J

of the Communist Party in Moscow, analyzed

the

lessons

of

Allende's

downfall. While emphasizing the need to "broaden the base" of the revolution

through infiltration and propaganda, Ponomarev

stressed

the "tremendous

importance of being prepared to prompt ly change forms of struggle, peaceful and non-peaccful, of the ability to repel the counter-revolutionary violence of the bourgeoisie with revolutionary vi

olence. (Soviet Penetration of Latin America

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Washington Center for

Advanced International Studies, 1975, p. 16).

Sandinista revolutionaries. Their success serves as an inspiration for other.Marxist rebels trying to overthrow the order of things in other Latin American countries.

Viewed in this light, the Sandinist

victory in Nicaragua is more than just one small country's falling into the com

munist camp. It is a step in a long range program of "finlandizing" the United States.

Alreadv the exportation of the San

dinist techniques has begun and not only in its fragile Central American neighbors

where

leftist

violence

is

mounting, but also in South America where the revolutionaries are "broaden

ing their base."

Such also is the case pointed out in

the report in "Nicaragua Night" â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a special session

of the International

Ecumenical Congress of Theology re cently held at the Pontifical Catholic University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

International Ecumenical Congress of Theology participants-, (left to right) a Chilean priest, a mm from Colombia, and a Brazilian priest. Common cause?

One could ask the question: Are the application of the strategy of

Delegates from over 42 countries were among those who warmly ap plauded Nicaraguan junta members

the Soviets, smarting at their great loss

denial theory. In the face of the cat

in Chile (a loss they have been unable to recoup, even until today despite

astrophic results such a new Sandin

and fellow guerillas who came to pro

massive propaganda) attempting to

mote the Sandinist way of liberation in that country.

the reader to study the strange case of

"broaden their base" in Brazil and'

Nicaragua Night - Liberation Theology

use that country also as an element in

Put Into Practice.

10 CRUSADE

ist adventure would cause, it behooves

Nicaragua—A Base of Subversion for the

Whole of Latin America

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Daniel Ortega Saavedra standing -with bis clenched fist high in the air, with the guerrilla David Chavarria on his right, extolls "the heroic and magnificent Cuban revolution with Fidel Castro at its head." Fr. Uriel Molina (first from the left), Friar Betto and Fr. Miguel D'Escoto (to the reader's right) applaud. On the table are posters of the "saints" of the Nicaraguan revolu tion: Sandino and Carlos Amador.

Christian Communities." In all, forty-

pants have been reprinted at the em. of this article.)

threatening destruction of the continent

two nations were represented at the meeting giving it a wide international

with the largest Catholic population in

character.

A volcano more devastating than Mount St. Helens is rumbling in Brazil,

the world - and one whose geographical

Noteworthy among the "honored"

position is in an area that has been un comfortably called the "soft underbelly

guests was a delegation from Nicaragua,

of the United States."

ta-Daniel Ortega Saavedra. During a special session of the Congress dubbed "Nicaragua Night," Ortega extolled

A recent single event, little public ized in the United States, is sufficient to

show the lines connecting the violent rev olution in Nicaragua with a similar plan for the whole South American continent.

On February 28, 1980, the Inter national Ecumenical Congress of The ology opened in TUCA, the Auditorium

including one member of the new jun

With markedly demogogic expressions and tones of voice, Ortega became the

other clergy attending the Congress.

star of the evening as he emphasized the

The link between "progressivism"

of the Pontifical Catholic University in

cal orientation and statements of the

consisted of bishops, priests, nuns, and

main speakers at "Sandinist Night."

activists

(The full, unedited speeches of the par-

so-called

"Basic

the Revolutionary Nicaraguan workers and peasants."

ation theo!ogy"-that same liberation theology advocated by the bishops and

Sao Paulo, Brazil. Most of the audience

the

"I bring to the Brazilian workers, peasants, and patriots the embrace of

armed revolution in the name of "liber

and subversion becomes patently evident upon analyzing the backgrounds, politi

from

DANIEL ORTEGA SAAVEDRA -

Member of the Nicaraguan Junta.

communitarian character of the revolu tion in his countr\', "1 do not believe that the revolution

can be isolated from the struggles of the peoples, it (the revolutionary victory) was possible in Nicaragua because the CRUSADE n

"I wiD try to thank you with deeds, and if necessary with blood. . Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga of Sao Felix do Araguaia, BrazO. peoples of Latin America and the world

daliga expressed his thanks for the gift

Nicaragua, liberation, life, a new father

decidedly supported it. Likewise, Nicaraguans are not unaware of the blood shed, in the fight of the peoples of this

h.e had just received from Idibal Piveta,

land."

continent for their liberation . .."

The

international character of the

the master of ceremonies of the Sandin-

ist Night program. Piveta explained: "When we were in Nicaragua in Decem ber ... we received some uniforms and

ment to further the "Nicaraguan-style"

presents from the guerrillas of Nicaragua for us to give to Brazilian companions,

revolution throughout Latin America

to pay homage to that Brazilian who has

made by this quasi-chief of state is un

fought for his people, for liberty and so cial justice. I would like to give this uni form, presented by aguerrilla companion from Nicaragua, to Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga."Frenzy in the auditorium reached

Nicaraguan revolution and the incite

deniable.

Although Ortega extolled the "he

roic and magnificant Cuban revolution,"

he noted that it could not be repeated in the same way. Formerly, "everybody wanted to be a Fidel Castro," he said.

Now, however, the revolution, as he saw it, was to take an even more radical

a climax when the prelate donned the

These words seem to mean that the

disconcerting prelate of Araguaia pre sents himself as the new "Che" Guevara,

as a hothead of that minority which is yet insignificant, but is disposed to take its design to overthrow the order of things in Latin America to its ultimate consequences ("... with blood ...") in

order to implant a revolutionary regime in its place. Such a regime would be one

in which all inequalities, family, and pri vate property rights would disappear and the people would become masses flat

jacket of the uniform and embraced

tened out by the centralized power of

Piveta.

some party or group.

are symbols of the revolution. That is

When the clapping and whistling sub sided, the Bishop declared:" . .. dressed as guerrilla, I feel as 1 might (when)

why there is no supreme leader in Nica

dressed as a priest."

Christian Communities."

Monsignor "Hammer and Sickle" as Bishop Casaldaliga calls himself in one of

Bible because the devil as such does not

his books, said that he received that uni

exist but capitalism does exist."

tack. No longer will there be men who

ragua, but rather a five-man junta. And the FSLN itself is governed by a nineman directorate.

In view of the emphasis the new

form as "sacrament of liberation." And,

Nicaraguan regime gives to the collcc-

in a clear allusion to the Brazilian army,

tivist nature of the revolution, this

he added, "This color greenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the green

regime, as we see it, is more radical than communist governments

of our jungles, being sacrificed in the Amazonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has at times signified repres

which were actually headed by "strong

sion, torture. It has also signified in

the

classic

SOCORRO GUERRERO - a female

member

of the

Nicaraguan "Basic

"(Capitalism) ... is the devil of the

Although she presented herself as a semi-literate, Guerrero described the

various phases of her transformation

from mother and housewife to a guerrilla quite logically: first, just a simple peas-

men." In Nicaragua, the regime is more communitarian, more communist.

This interpretation, drawn from the

words of Junta member Daniel Ortega Saavedra (excerpted here but spelled out in greater detail later in this article) sheds more light on a proclamation made four years ago by the Brazilian Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, who calls himself "Monsignor Hammer and Sickle": "I know that I can and must

go

farther

than

Communism." (cf.

Yo Creo en la jnsticia y en la esperanza, 1976, p. 180) This is the revolution that the Nic

araguan leader went to preach in Brazil as a model for the whole continent.

BISHOP PEDRO CASALDALIGA,

of Sao Felix do Araguaia, Brazil.

"I will try to thank you with deeds,

and if necessary with blood. We will

fight..." "(When) dressed as a guerrilla I feel as I might (when) dressed as a priest."

Idibal Piveta presenting Sandinista guerrilla uniform to Msgr. Pedro Casaldaliga With these words. Bishop Casal 12 CRUSADE

Msgr. Hammer and Sickle.

counter difficulties in overcoming the habits of a people whose life is deeply marked by centuries of Catholic tradi

tion. The leaders of the "Popular Church" know this quite well.

Accordingly, this session of the International Ecumenical Congress was well planned so that the stark state

ments and intentions of the speakers would not "rock the boat"

"Sandinist Night" was coordinated by the Dominican Friar Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo, better known as the notorious Frei Betto. He was one of the

pivotal figures in thcMarighelacasein '69. □ □ □

The "Father of International Terrorism"

Friar Betto has a long history of subversive activities as well as intimate

links with Carlos Marighela, considered by some to be the "father of interna tional terrorism."

How did itallbeginPCarlosMarighela, a former communist congressman, had

Subversion embraces progressivism.

ant housewife; then, nine years of in

the end) 1 felt that it was not I who

doctrination in the basic Christian com

was preaching the Gospel. The young

munities under the direction of Fr. Uriel

Sandinists of Nicaragua were beginning

Mqlina; finally her commitment to the

to preach it."

guerrilla movement.She affirmed that al though the revolution in Brazil would be difficult, it was not impossible .adding that the worst evil m Brazil is capitalism.

Further, her denial of the existence of

the devil is a way of saying that God doesn't exist either. These affirmations

were warmly applauded by the audience.

This speech by a representative of Nicaragua's Basic Christian Communi

ties provides a clear example of how a simple, peaceful person can be hooked into the revolutionary struggle.

Fr. Molina remarks give clear testi

mony of the involvement of the "pro gressive" clergy in the revolutionary

struggle. He describes his activity inthc ecclesiastical structure as a chaplain

of the guerrillas, emphasizing the de velopment of his own indentification

with the guerrilla ideal and, in the end, justifying violence. *

«

«

It is difficult to set a forest afire if

the wood is nor dry. Similarly, the heralds of "liberation theology" en

become convinced that the methods of

Brazilian

Communist

Party

founder

Luiz Carlos Prestes did not work, and

that it was necessary to speed up the revolutionary process by adopting a vio lent political line. Expelled from the

Party, he founded the National Libera tion Alliance (ALN), which aimed to

seize power through urban and rural guerrilla actions.

He

wrote

the

well-known

Letters

from Havana and Matiual of the Urban Guerrilla, which was distributed widely among militants of subversive Brazilian organizations. Manual of the Urban

Guerrilla was also published in Europe, where by August of 1977, according to press reports, it was at the root of a

terrorist assault in Germany with inter-

DAVID CHAVARRIA - A Nicara-

guan Christian Guerrilla

"(The well-being of a whole people) ... This people is precisely the great fatherland, the free . fatherland, the whole of Latin America ..."

When one considers the background of David Chavarria one wonders just what is meant by the "well-being" of the people of the whole of Latin Ameri ca. Mr. Chavarria was a member of the Basic Christian Communities for some

twelve years and then an activist in the

Sandinist organization. He justifies an armed, active, and well-organized strug

gle on the basis of "liberation theology."

FR. URIEL MOLINA — Chaplain of the Basic Christian Communitie.s.

"I felt. . . that the Gospel had been appropriated for a long time by the rich, by the powerful classes; and (in

i

Revolutionary "preachers" — (left to right) Fr, Molina, David Chavarria, Ortega, Frei Betto, Fr. D'Escoto.

CRUSADE

13

national repercussioJis. In tact, a whole series of hijackings, indiscriminate mass

murders, kidnappings and assassinations of ambassadors and high political per

sonages, as well as the seizing of hostages in embassies constitute but so many

applications of the principles in this manual.

In 1969, Marighela was on the po lice's most wanted list. The newspapers

reported that although the police could not find him, they had captured a mili tant of the ALN and had discovered

that a group of Dominican friars â&#x20AC;&#x201D; priests and seminarians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was giving assistance to the ALN, (which had al

ready made itself responsible for a series of bombings, murders, bank robberies, and thefts of arms and automobiles,etc.)

Friar Fernando de Brito (a priest) and Friar Yves do Amaral Lesbaupin ( a seminarian) were the first Dominicans to be arrested in Sao Paulo.

On November 4, the police took Friar Fernando to the Duas Cidades

bookstore

where

tHe

friar

worked.

There they obliged him to telephone

Marighela and set up an urgent meeting between him and the two Dominicans.

Immediately afterwards, the police took the two captured Dominicans to Casa

Branca boulevard, the place of their rendevous with Marighela, and left them there, handcuffed, in a car.

The

terrorist

chief

confidently

walked forward to meet his two ecclesi

astical accomplices. The police pre sented themselves and Marighela was killed in the shootout.

An international audience of bishops, priests, nuns, and lay activists from the

Basic Christian Communities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; readying for Revolution? tions and personalities, a picture begins

This is a revolution that threatens the future of all of the Americas. It

to emerge. One can sec how the revolu

is a revolution that may bathe them in

When we consider all these declara

tionaries in Nicaragua sought to join

blood. But its decisive factor is above

all the discontented sectors of society

all psychological; a factor already ac

into a single revolutionary front for the overthrow of the existing order of things. The Communists, atheists, and their ilk set out directly for armed com

tive in the media and in religious and civic organizations.

Since the fire of progressivism and

bat. Meanwhile, the Basic Christian Com

liberation theology is widespread in the

munities andihe progressive clergy sought

U.S. too, we publish in the following pages the speeches delivered at the

As a consequence, a whole network

to justify this violence on the basis of liberation theology.

of terrorists fell in the police roundup,

When the united front took form,

tions of these revolutionaries appear

all of them began the final assault. This was the way it was in Nicaragua, and this is the plan for all of Latin America. It

with shocking clarity. Thus our readers may increase their awareness of, and

among them Friar Betto, captured in Rio Grande do Sul, where he assisted subversives in fleeing the country.

On September 13, 1971, the three Dominicans were found guilty and sen tenced to four years imprisonment by a

"Nicaragua. Night," in which the inten

the Nicaraguans had gone to preach in

act to frustrate the designs of those utilizing the prestige and authority of the Holy Catholic Church to preach

Brazil under the guise of ecumenism.

communist subversion.

was a religious and political war that

military court in Sao Paulo. The High Military Court confirmed the sentence

on July 17, 1972 and penalized them further with a ten-year suspension of political rights. On September 25, 1973, the Federal Supreme Court, considering that the convicted friars

were not "organizers" of the gang but merely participants in their "support sector" or "logistic sector," reduced

their sentences to two years imprison ment.

Three other Dominican friars in volved in the same case were con

demned in absentia to four years im prisonment and were further penalized

with a ten year suspension of their political rights. They are; Friars Oswaldo Augusto Rezende Junior, Luiz Felipe Ratton Mascarenhas, and Magno Jose

Msgr. "Hammer and Sickle" in Sandinista guerrilla uniform, ". , . vested

Vilella.

priest. .."

14 CRUSADE

as a

"Nicaragua Night"—Liberation Theology Put Into Practice

M O RTkI

LIB

The Sandinista motto, "A free fatherland or death" hangs over the audience, made up mostly of priests, nuns, and militants of the BCC (Basic Christian Com munities).

Editor's Note: Since anyone who wished was allowed to have tape recorders on

the speakers' table, our reporter re corded the session, some speeches of which we reproduce below. Although the language at times reflects the edu cation of the speaker, we have tran scribed it exactly as stated; we have not

and among the peasants. In 1956 the guerrillas avenged Sandino's death with

I - THEME: THEORY APPLIED TO A CONCRETE CASE

the death of Somoza.

Today's theme is Pastoral Practice and Political Practice. Nothing would

The United Front in the Cities

be more fitting than presenting pastoral practice with its political consequences, as in the case of Nicaragua.

dinista National Liberation Front arises.

placed "sic" beside the grammatical and other errors, as we deemed that the

interruptions of the text would consti

In the period 1956 to 1963 the San

It was founded by the revolutionary Carlos Fonseca Amador, who was mur

dered by the forces of repression in

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a small country in Cen

1976. '63 to '76 arc years of establish

tute an unnecessary distraction for the

tral America — small compared to the

reader. The emphasis, titles and sub titles, as well as the parenthetical

dimensions of Brazil but great because it has already achieved that which we

ment and expansion of guerrilla groups.

'67 to 1974 is the phase of gathering

insertions, are ours.

are still seeking, that is, the liberation of its people. Nicaragua has about 3

Three Years of Repression

Speaker: Now I call on our wellknown and popular Frei Betto (see page

million

inhabitants

and

an

area

of

132,000 square kilometers.

13) to coordinate the solemnities and

the working sessions tonight.

50 Years of Struggle

Frei Betto: In the first place you must have already noticed that we have

The Sandinista Era.

forces even in the cities.

From 1974 to 1977 a powcri pression is unleashed against the Sandin ista Front and the revolutionary fighters.

The Front Broadens — Victory But beginning in

October 1977,

the Sandinista National Liberation Front

here with us the participants of the International Ecumenical Congress of Theology representing 42 countries of

The struggle of the Nicaraguan peo ple, a people oppressed since the last

century especially by the Americans, for their liberation, began most decisive

in Nicaragua. It manages to unleash the

the world, most of whom are from the

ly in 1927 led by Sandino. Sandino

Third World and all the nations of Latin

carried on the fight, planted the seed of

America except Cuba, because our

this fight until 1934, when he was mur

government does not have (diplomatic)

dered by the father of the dictator Somoza, who was overthrown last year.

relations with the Cuban government.

But all during the congress we have

made a point of keeping a chair covered with a Cuban banner at the sessions,

(applause and whistles)

20 Years of Guerrilla Warfare

Between 1934 and 1956 the fight took place mainly in the mountains

manages to unify the opposition groups process of struggle that in fact results in the fall of the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which had been in power for 44 years. On July 19, 1979

the Sandinista Front and dac people of Nicaragua begin in fact to live in a free country.

1 would like to announce the names

of the Nicaraguan comrades who reall)' participated in this fight and are here CRUSADE 15

present. Here present among us is Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is

And the same celebration drives us

to the same hope.

a member of the Junta of the govern

I would just like, in closing, to ask

ment of reconstruction of Nicaragua

and of the national leadership of the

all of you that we be consistent: that which we are celebrating, that which we

Sandinista National Liberation Front.

are applauding, commits us to the end.

Also present is Father Miguel D'Escoto, who is Minister of Foreign Relations of

Nicaragua has given us the example.

less in '69 I was a person, who, so to speak, did not think, since I had not

come to grips with my realities until more or less the '70's. Then the move

ment of the Basic Communities began to appear in Nicaragua. I took interest in

it and began to frequent it in the neighborhood where 1 live. There Fr. Uriel Molina is in charge of pastoral

Nicaragua; Mrs. Socorro Guerreiro, of Managua's Basic Communities; David

work.

Chavarria, member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and also of

Revolutionary "Concientization"

the Basic Communities of Nicaragua; tor in the outskirts of Managua.

Then we began to question ourselves with the Bible, since God gave it that charism which by means of the word

II - GUERRILLA UNIFORM FOR

reality: That reality where we live sub

and Father Uriel Molina, who is a pas

of God we come to discover our social

merged, where we didn't have water,

A BISHOP IN BRAZIL

we didn't have light, we didn't have in

food, our hospital service was lacking,

Nicaragua in December expressing our small solidarity with the people of Nicaragua and of Latin America, we received some uniforms and presents

to sum up, a series of such things. And

given us right from our birth.

from guerrillas of Nicaragua for us to give to Brazilian companions, to pay

Stages of Indoctrination

Idibal

Piveta:

When

we

were

above all we discovered, or rather we

rediscovered, the gift that God had

But a person like me, without ed

homage to that Brazilian who has fought

ucation, — 1 only reached the third year of grade school — almost unable

for his people, for liberty and social justice. I would like to give this uni form, presented by a guerrilla compan ion from Nicaragua, to Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga.(uproarous applause,shouts, and whistles)

to write, only to read, I came to grasp this treasure, which one only discovers

Msgr. Pedro Casaldaliga (Msgr. Haminer and Sickle)

The Bishop Speaks: Invitation to Fight to the Death

All of us, all the peoples of Latin America, all the peoples of the Third

through God and the companions we have beside us. And 1 came to realize

that the problem was great. But this is

done by

biblical studies where we

question our reality through the Gospel.

World, are going after them,(uproarous

Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga I will try to

Politicization

thank you for this sacrament of libera tion which 1 have just received. This green color — the green of our jungles

applause. Immediately afterwards the audience is invited to sing along in a song dedicated to a Sandinist who died in guerrilla fighting. A musical group

conscious of the social problem in

being sacrificed in the Amazon ~ has

leads.)

step comes. . .when a person gets in volved in the social problems of his

at times signified repression, torture.

It, has also signified, in Nicaragua, liber

ation, life, a new fatherland, I say that I will try to thank you with deeds, and if necessary, with blood. We will fight. . . Our common hope, that is faith in God and faith in the people of the poor; the will we have for a new, free America; the will for us to conquer liberty — which is not given, it is con quered: with thcdiffcrentpeoplesunited inside each fatherland; natives, blacks, united; fatherland to fatherland.

This day, today, is for me, for all

of us, a truly historic day.

For the first time in Brazil, in the

world, the faith of the thought of the Church in theology, the faith in the Church shared ecumenically — the Catholic Church, evangelical churches — is witnessed to by practice, by the commitment of a charity that becomes social and political to the death, to win life.

(When) dressed as a guerrilla, I feel as I might (when) vested as a priest. (applause) 16 CRUSADE

There it is that we really become which we live. That's when the second

Ill - A GUERRILLA FROM THE BASIC COMMUNITIES SPEAKS

country, he is already a political man, a man who in fact has to be political, because everyone around him will

Socorro Guerrero: Good evening, companions. In the name of the Chris tian Communities and of the people's

companions that today are in the San dinista Front arise, (she gives their

inevitably question him. Then, those

movements of Nicaragua, 1 am going to

tell you my little experience as a prole

tarian woman, a woman from the neg lected neighborhoods of Nicaragua like so many of those little ones that you have here in Brazil — a woman who in the name of all mothers — 1 dare to

Action

It is a scries of companions who to day are (hesitating). ..who are our commanders. They told mc that thev

take to myself the right to say to you —

needed a house that looked more or

that in the name of all the mothers of

less like a regular home. 1 was afraid.

Nicaragua, in the name of all those suffering mothers, of those who have

been exploited by about 44 years of harsh dietatorship and that, thanks to God and to the vanguard, that is, the Sandinista Front, and to all the people

of Nicaragua, we can say today: a free fatherland or death.

I can't deny it. But Christianit)- itself, my own necessity to see if someday I would see my Nicaragua free. . . 1 had to

do something. Then it was that my commitment became stronger. I agreed, and began to collaborate with the com panions of the Sandinista Front.

There were happy moments, diffi cult moments, because what can you say

Joining the Basic Christian Communities

when there is a guard like the one

1 will tell my experience. More or

Somaza had, when we know well that

step of integration (became) motivated in the conscience and in the awakening

of the problems of a people from a Christian perspective.

Concept of "Incarnation" 1 want to say that it is precisely a

profound Christian conviction that is realized only in an incarnation, in an identification with -the sufferings and

pains of a people who languish under an opprobrious dictatorship of military gorillas imposed by foreign powers.

The Guerrilla

This profound Christian conviction — if we are consistent with it — has to

lead us inescapably to the renunciation of our own lives, to the renunciation

of our own family, to the renunciation of our own names. There is nothing grander in a human being as Christ has already said than to give one's life for others.

This renunciation

of one's

name

means to deny oneself, to deny one's own existence for the sake of a whole

Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arm, Archbishop ofSao Paulo;"Enough of Theology!

Let's get to work. . ."

cided and 1 especially was no longer

rifle, npw 1 say to my companions I need you to teach me to handle a rifle, because the day that they invade I am not going to permit it. 1 am going to

afraid to die. I already knew that it

take this weapon that I did not take

they do mop up operations, and we know that we are very much involved.

We are afraid to die. But we had de

was better to die than to live 80 or 90

before

years dying slowly,(applause)

I have to take it, (the rifle) and all of

Capitalism: the devil of the Bible What I mean to sav by this is that

I encourage all the Basic Communities

because

I

was

afraid. . . .But

people. In order for us to fight within the organization, we had to give up our names and adopt other names with which

we identified ourselves in the

fight. But facts are realities and not words. Experience and work led me to

accept these labors to their ultimate consequences; that is, to the death.

"Martyrdom" I had the honor of suffering impris

us Nicaraguans are ready to take it;

onment and torture under the shameful

because if we don't take it up soon —

military dictatorship, tortures that are

because don't deceive yourselves, there

unfitting even to animals, whole days and nights under interrogation,

is

no

revolution

without

counter

and people's movements, It is true that

revolution — we are going to be in

kicks, blows with rifle butts until final

here in Brazil — which according to the

vaded; because I do not believe that the

ly one passes blood: blindfolded with

little that I know is very large—a revol

Yankee enemy — the enemy who took away the best there was in Nicaragua —

faces is raw flesh; electric shocks - tor

ution IS going to be difficult, but it

will not be impossible,(applause) . . .It's necessary for everyone to mu tually help each other, because strength

arises from union. 1 wish you would question a little bit more. I know that all of you who are here have good hearts and are Christians. However, you should question a bit more. It seems to me that this monster you have of a capitalism. .. (applause) I do

not wish that...but

like something that we the Nicaraguans are conscious of: capitalism is the worst and the greatest enemy. It is what we

this is what we have achieved with the

vanguard,

which

is

the

Sandinista

Front and the people in general; because having a people who have fought — you cannot imagine how our sons

capitalism does exist. It imprisons us, it takes us out of our being — that being

which God gave us. That is why 1 say to you that today we in Nicaragua live

happy, and that happiness we are going to conquer, come what may.

A Mobilizing Specter . . .If it is true that I have taken up a

tures whose magnitude one cannot know but which one accepts when one has the consciousness and the clarit\' that life

and death make sense only when lives in the struggle of a people,

fought, made barricades, shot arrows,

Not to falter, -never to be defeauu,

picked up the wounded in the streets.

They were happy — that happiness that we have conquered now. Much obliged, companions. . .(applause)

it's an experience that one acquires in combat, when our companions along

IV - A CHRISTIAN GUERRILLA

side us fall under the bullets of the dic

tatorship, of the well-known Guard, and have only enough strength to sa\-: Companions, advance! Victor\- is ours!

SPEAKS

These words go so deep that in c\er\-

David Chavarria: Thank you, com

village that the rcvolutionar\- forces liberated wc felt, when we entered to

call "the devil of the Bible," because the devil as such does not exist but

a mask full of soap until part of our

panions: the testimony that I could offer tonight is the testimony of a whole different experience of life on the basis of 12 years of belonging to a Christian community of which my companion Socorro has already spoken, of nearly 7 years of militancy in the ranks of the Sandinista Front. My companion Socorro explained how this

liberate and we liberated that tillage, that there was our fallen companion, that he had not yet died.

Hope Our companions really live in the daily struggle of a people, this sense hope that can exist only in a Christian perspective. But he who is not disposed CRUSADE 17

to go on sacrificing himself for the development and well-being of a whole people, cannot hope only for a good fu ture. And this people does not neces sarily have to be the Nicaraguan people.

This people is precisely the great father

thers in Marx" and from then on never

land, the free fatherland, the whole of

Agitation in the Christian Communities

ceased'its attacks against us, marginal

izing us from the whole process and making us suffer profound contradic tions in our priestly work.

Some significant experiences of this

Latin America:- this fatherland of which

Bolivar dreamt in Venezuela; Marti, in

historic moment were certain commit

Cuba; Villa, in Mexico; Guevara, in Boliva; and Sandino, in Nicaragua. That

ments that we as priests made in the

was possible with the sacrifice and the sufferings of the sons of Sandino and of Carlos Fonseca, who live today and are an example for Latin America in this little people of Nicaragua,(applause)

communities and by joining significant

work of encouragement of the Christian national

I said, "yes, absolutely." I saw that it was a great opportunity to enter into dialogue with the youth that was suf fering. Some of these young university

this Nicaraguan revolutionary process.

i speak on the basis of my priestly and religious experience.

I was born and lived the first part of my youth until I was 18 under the re gime of Somozan slavery. I studied three years of law in the National Uni versity ot Nicaragua, which was in Leon at that time. Then 1 entered the Fran

students are today commanders or out

"Liberation theology" leads a nun to

standing figures of the Sandinista Na

take iip a rifle alongside a guerrilla ivo-

tional Liberation Front.

man in Nicaragua, -whose revolution is

no-w presented as a model for all of

my priestly studies, that led me after wards to an intense post-graduate course Rome and

The Holy War For more than a year wc organized a

Latin America,

long process of integration of faith and politics, of faith and revolution: a

LiXlXTj-l M ' i '

simple and wholesome reading of the

ciscan Order at Assisi, where I concluded

in

teachers'

material premises of my own parish.

to you very simply of my experience in

studies

the

ment, wc should form a university Christian community living in the very

Father Uriel Molina: I want to speak

biblical

like

Later on, in fact, in the

year 1971, a group of young universitystudents proposed that if 1 were in agree

V - A CHAPLAIN OF SUBVERSION SPEAKS

in

strikes

strikes. . . .

A LOTA

DE CLASSE ^■^■1

— '

"

I

i

('

SO\'lETlC/

Gospel with an analysis of our reality

, . p'". '

'

'

in

rooted in a history that had to be re

deemed. 1 confess humbly and frankly that it was not always easy for me as

Jerusalem.

a priest with no support from the order to which 1 belong nor in the structures of the Church to be able to nourish my

Internal Action in the Church. . .

After 12 long years I returned to my country in 1965, when the Sandinista

hope and my faith in a clear delineation

National Liberation Front had just been

of the doctrine that would indicate the road to follow.

set up.

We did not then have any doctrinal clarification, nor did we even know

Together with other priests, I began to carry out in Managua what I would a Church that was committed to the

what later would be the symbol of our study circles: the "liberation theology"

governing regime. It fell to some of us

of the

priests to rescue the evangelical message from the appropriation that had been

Gutierrez.

made of it for a long time by the oli

what went on at the Latin

garchic classes.

level. But I felt laden above all u,

call a prophetic work of rescue against

Peruvian theologain, Gustavo

We had some clear informati'"-' ihout

ui , the

weight of a-struggle between mv com .. .Favoring the Guerrillas

We were also led to this prophetic commitment by the valiant guerrilla action of our Sandinista brothers, carried out in some places within our country. One day some Sandinista com panions were discovered in their hide

out in a neighborhood of Managua, The security forces and the police were

Revohttionary literature such as the ■works of Marx and Engels, on sale at the entrance to the TUCA auditoriumof the

Pontifical Catholic University in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

mitment with the people and the weight of the

ecclesiastical institution.

Hard

pressed by my superiors, I entered into conflict with myself when I tried to reconcile those phrases which we had learned: "The Gospel is for everyone;

with all clarity: injustice in the dis proportionate means employed to com

the rich also have to save themselves."

"We have to be careful with the instru-

bat the Sandinistas. We lighted the way

mentalization. We have to explicitate

called, and they were gunned down

to what would one day be the future

our faith

mercilessly by small tanks. All that was left were their mutilated corpses and their plan of military action.

Nicaragua, starting from some clear and concrete points, pointing out what the Bible taught us: the exodus to a great

"We have to condemn violence; vio

sentences that I was accumulating like

fatherland. The reaction was not long in

a spiral.

Political Action

coming. The Diario Nacionat of the

With great devotion to the Church to which I belong, but which in me always meant a profound impediment to ac-

Seven of us priests gathered to raise our voices in the face of what we saw

18 CRUSADE

governing regime of the dictatorship christened us then as the "seven bro

in

the religious aspect."

lence is not evangelical." A series of

cepting a commitment of militancy among the persons who were enlightened b)- my pastoral work. Nevertheless,

himself in the tremendous martyrdom that he was suffering.

within that cloud 1 felt there was a

Armed Combat

reality that had to be taken into ac count, and that that reality was not chemically pure and that the Gospel had

been appropriated for a long time by the rich classes, by the powerful classes; that (was) what really kept me from making the more candid and simple commitment that was offered me by

he mieht eo to Communion and nourish

VI - A GUERRILLA COMMANDER IN THE TUCA AUDITORIUM

Frei Betto: Now we are certainly pri

When he came out of the prison,

vileged to hear the word of Comman-

he had his plan to join the national

dante Daniel Ortega Saavedra of thCgovjunta of Nicaragua and the national lead ership of the Sandinista National Liber

insurrection which

was imminent. He

came by my house and left me a letter that 1 still keep: "I wanted to celebrate

ation Front,(applause)

a Eucharist with you before joining the fight."

I would like, before closing, to sim

The Embrace of Subversion

ply point this out: That his witness made me tliink very much of the phrase of the Master: "The disciple is

Daniel Ortega: I must thank you for this applause, this enthusiasm of yours, in the name of our heroes and martyrs who live in the Nicaraguan revolution,

tine work in the ranks of the Sandin-

not greater than his master." In this case, in my community, I must say the contrary: the disciples were greater

ista

than the master,(applause)

the \'outh.

Collaboration With Sandinism

The youths went ahead with their commitment. They continued clandes National

Liberation

Front. And

then from 1973 they disappeared to join a clandestine, subtle, and intense

work with the people's cadres fostered in the Basic Christian Communities.

Chaplain of Sandinism

So we accompanied the people through this process of enlightenment.

I felt the imperious necessity of accom panying them by the preaching of homilies that were given every night in the church and through correspon

dence. But I must say above all that I learned it was necessary to make an

other leap through an intense and pro found commitment of those young men in their militancy within the univer

sity community.

who live in the heart of the peoples of Latin America.. . Today here in Bra

zil we feel happy because of your enthu siasm and optimism. We bring to the

"Apostle" Guerrillas What I was not capable of giving, they gave. And then, on the day when the national insurrection began, 1 had

the last lesson from a whole people who never separated faith and prayer from

people of Brazil, to the Brazilian work

ers, to Brazilian patriots, the greeting, the frank embrace of Nicaraguan work ers, of Nicaraguan patriots and of Nicaraguan revolutionaries,(applause)

the revolutionary fight. When Somoza's

Following Castro's Tracks,

bombs struck down the civilian popula tion of my neighborhood, 1 heard, as

With One Difference...

the only response behind those who defended themselves against the bursts

combat in 1970 used to comment in

of machineguns, a cry of hope for all of US: "A free fatherland or death!"

And I withdrew into my solitude, in

profound prayer, many times in front

A very dear companion who died in conversations with other companions around the year 1964 that the great difficulty that we of the liberation movements had was that everybody in the leadership of the liberation move

of the tabernacle. And 1 felt that it

ment wanted to be Fidel Castro. And

was not I who was preaching the Gospel.

The young Sandinistas of Nicaragua were beginning to preach it. (applause)

considering this past of ours at a dis

tance, we confirm in practice that this, our Sandinista brother, was quite right,

A "Martyr" Among those young fellows, the one that is at my left, (David Chavarria) I believe that 1 owe my vocation very much to him. I don't have any senti ment â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how shall 1 say it? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of reserve

to confess it publich", because one day he

was arrested and thrown into the

national security jails where they mis treated him. He told only a part. I have

in m\' heart ami in a profound writing. . . a tetter from him in the prison. What hewent through, his torture, his encounter with Christ crucified in that solitude!

He sent a letter to me in which he said; "I don't know whether I'll come out of

this jail alive, but the only thing I know is that my conviction is strong. 1 beg you as pastor of the community to read this letter and to denounce as it be

hooves you what is being perpetrated in the prisons of Nicaragua." 1 was

afraid to do it, also for his personal safety. Nevertheless, my commitment was stronger and I <'-;d it.

And I denounced to the world inside

and outside of Nicaragua what had

happened and then we began a dialogue and a series of letters. And 1 sent him my letters in answer with phrases from the Scripture and with the Eucharist so that

Father Uriel Molina speaks of his revolutionary experience.'

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Because there was above all a tendency to fall into • a faithful copy of a tri umphant revolution. There was .even a

tendency to look for.a Fidel Castro for every Latin American revolution.

In time our revolution became per suaded that the Cuban revolution was

one in Ladn America, that the Cuban

revolution — heroic and magnificent with Fidel Castro at its head — could

not be repeated the same way.(applause) In our country, our vanguard, the

top directive body, which is called National Direction, is made up of nine members. One could not repeat the phenomenon of the Cuban revolution in every detail. And in Nicaragua the participation of insurrected masses in

the cities was decisive. And the guer rilla in the fields and in the mountains

was a part of this insurrection rather

than the axis of the revolutionary war.

As long as we didn't penetrate our his tory, as long as we didn't set the roots

of our process, we couldn't find the right answer.

Nevertheless, we had gone on dream ing, dreaming about an experiment that was already finished. Instead of knowing how to creatively assimilate

the results of that experiment, we tended to fall into a mechanical, rigid and theoretical way of imitating it. It was

necessary to get over all of this. And all this tendency could be overcome only by virtue of practice, experience,

failures, and the strength of our people.

A Mainly Psychological Victory...

Many will ask how the victory of the Sandinistas was possible. We have said and we repeat that our victory was possible not because we had acquired a little more armament, not because we

had organized the people a little better, not because we had gathered together a larger number of combatants. It was

der to be able to unite ourselves. With

companions who were asking us about

out unity, the revolutionary victory in Nicaragua would not have been possible.

the relations Church-revolution. If the

...Even in Regard to Internal Divisions It was not an easy task because

everyone — in this case every organiza

Nicaraguan revolution had taken place in the year 1957, when the tyrant Anastazio Somoza Garcia had just been executed, it is certain that it would have clashed with the Church, because

tion — tended to make itself the abso

the Church in its Hierarchy, in the ma jority of its representatives, was front-

lute owner of the truth and to deny that the others have any part of it; because we easily fall into sectarianism; because

long time.

instead of showing one single fist, we show five extended fingers pointing in

of this aggression of the Church against our people, was when the tyrant, when

different directions.

the murderer Somoza Garcia was buried,

Then it is not possible to think of advances, transformations, of revolu

tions, even though we may preach it

and repeat it.We have insisted and we insist when they ask us what experience the Nicaraguan revolution has yielded: we say that the greatest experience that the Nicaraguan revolution yielded is that one should not copy it, and that one must look for the answer in his own

reality, (applause) But we believe that there is an ex

ception to this affirmation. And it is that unity is the cornerstone, the de cisive and fundamental element for a

revolution to be possible. To this are attached, and we believe that this we

must copy; we must repeat it in other experiments.

Progressivism and Subversion

We feel proud to be here with the revolutionary Christians, even though this expression is somewhat redundant.

In Nicaragua we say that to be Chris tian is to be revolutionary and in our

country, to try to achieve in time, try to achieve a renewed Church, an active and combative Church, a Christian Church with a Christian, Sandinist

people, fighting against a bloody dicta torship.

possible because we were decisive and forceful. And, above all, because this is

Revolution in the State and

the most difficult thing, we were able to practice a little bit of humility in or-

Revolution in the Church

Yesterday we explained it to some

ally clashing \yith the people for a One of the most clear manifestations

when they paid homage to him before taking him to the grave: the high au thorities of the Church in Nicaragua buried him with the honors of a Prince

of the Church (laughter). It is certain that in

these conditions, when

the

revolution triumphed, the first ones to flee were the remainders of the Somoza

family, just as these gentlemen who held the high authority, the high repre

sentation of the Church in our country would have fled.

But luckily for our people and our continent,. . .the revolutionary history

in our country counted on the resolute participation of revolutionary priests. It counted on the blood that was shed, of

revolutionary priests like our unfor gettable hero, Caspar Garcia Labiana. (applause) Internal Ecumenism

The triumph in our country, we said,

was possible because there was no dog matism. It was possible because there was no sectarianism. It was possible be cause no one shut the doors. It was

possible because the people demanded so, and because their vanguard knew how to interpret it like this.

Today our country, our people, struggle in a difficult situation. We are fighting against the debts that the Som

oza dictatorship left in foreign banks and international agencies. arc fighting against illiteracy, bee wc have also said and repeat it: wh.ii our people conquered was freedom that enables them to be free.

A Bid for Support We need the support of peoples. We need the support of this continent's con

scious men. We need the support of Latin American governments and of the world. Our situation is difficult and we cannot isolate ourselves from the in

ternational economic movement, the in

wm^:,

ternational market. This is a reality weighing on our peoples, and above all on the poorer peoples, on the peoples who have the least resources. But it is

the question now of achieving and Castro and mentor-. Eyeing the soft underbelly?

20 CRUSADE

striving to obtain loans with dignity.

to strive for and achieve aid and loans

without faltering; of striving for and

achieving aid and loans to strengthen

the economy of a people, to strengthen our revolutionary process.

American Aid Superfluous

We were asking one of our compan ions what was the latest information

he had about the 75 million (aid) be

ing discussed in the United States for quite a while now — whether they have

already approved it or not. We want to clarify and we have already clari fied to our people that the future of the Nicaraguan revolution does not depend on these 75 million, (applause) because

^

i

suddenly they unleashed a whole cam paign in the international media wishing

to bombard our people with the idea that the 75 million are decisive for the future of the reconstruction of Nicar

agua. This is not true. We all know that neither 75 million, nor 400 million,

Nicaraguan junta members — No one "strong man" but more communitarian,

nor 20 billion are decisive.

more communist.

The Psychological Factor is Essential

Decisive is the spirit of decision of

our people, the disposition of our

they are going to lend — because they are not giving as a present — the 75 million to Nicaragua, they rapidly ap

people to be free through their own

prove 400 million dollars in arms to

efforts, to impose on themselves a quota

Pakistan and that arms be sent to the

of sacrifice in order finally to be able to be truly free.

Salvadoran Army, that economic aid be

quickly sent to the government of El Salvador...(a voice from the audience: "Murderers!")

A Political Problem

government, with the government of the United States. While they continually approved loan after loan to Somoza, knowing that Somoza used to steal, they now make obstacles and take a long time to grant a loan to our coun try, (and this) when Nicaragua has every right to demand from the govern ment of the United States a historic

United States, while

This is the reality about the relations

indemnification for the damage they

they debate over and over again whether

of our people, of our revolutionary

caused to our people! (applause, shouts)

And

in

the

Catholic University constituted a sort of an outlet for the general public of

A CONGRESS SHROUDED IN SECRECY

some selected items. Those who at

"Consider this qjiestion ~ enough of theology, let's get to work. Where are the groups that are going to Nicar

tended these sessions, were mostly

agua to learn? I answer: I know that in

gress of Theology met in Taboao da

religious, priests, and lay activists

Serra, a town near Sao Paulo. It had

of movements like the Basic Chris tian Communities(BCC).

Sao Paulo there are groups who are preparing and who have their bags

The International Ecumenical Con

the support of the most notorious Latin

American

advocates

of

the

The organizers of the Congress re

so-called Liberation Theology. On the

leased

conference program were the names of Bishops Sergio Mendez Arceo, Arch bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico; Leoni-

press, which was not permitted access

brief communiques to the

to the working sessions. In view of these circumstances, it is impossible

das Proano, Bishop of Riobamba,

to evade some questions that natur

Ecudaor; Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez from

ally arise in anybody's mind; Why such secrecy about strictly doctrinal

Peru; Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador in El Salvador; Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga of Sao Felix do Araguaia in Mato Grosso, Brazil; and

Friar Leonardo Boff of Brazil, among others.

According to the organizers, the congress — whose internal proceedings were surrounded with great secrecy — had participants from 42 countries.

No person who did not appear on the Jist of those invited was permitted

rigorous sealing-off of the working sessions of the "liberation theolgians"?

Was there something that they deemed better to hide from the public by avoiding any kind of leaks?

Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, the

Archbishop of Sao Paulo, closed the series of meetings in the TUCA on March 1st, declaring: "How shall we conclude? There

to enter.

The sessions that were held in the TUCA auditorium

matters? What was the reason for the

of the Pontifical

is no conclusion. The matter has just begun. . .

packed to leave. They even have the

permission

of the Archbishop of

Sao^ Paulo. . . ". ..Now is not the time to clo':i\

It is not night. We are at dawn... are going to thank the martyrs here Latin America and in Brazil.! would

like to call to mind here the squatter martyrs and the Indian martyrs...

We are not talking about a romantic liberation, but about a liberation from

hunger, from bad pay,from the slums.

Let this week be a commitment in

the blood of Christ. What matters now is to translate our words into a real

witness." (cf. 0 Sao Paulo

3/7 -

13/1980)

O.n the way out of the theater, a

young woman had sometliing to sell: "It's a very beautiful poster. Don't you want one?" It was an expensive color poster of the guerrilla "Che" Guevara.

Russia's International Expansion

"In periods of great crises, there are two kinds of

We believe that it is also necessary to denounce the situation we are ar

men: those who allow themselves to be overwhelmed

riving at, to unite ourselves in solid arity with the people of El Salvador, with this valiant Archbishop El Sal vador has, who is called Msgr. Romero

and devojired by the crises,arid those who oppose them and change the course of history."

(applause), who has denounced the

danger of intervention in his country.

We all know that in the most reaction

ary sectors of the United States, the

bellicose sectors, they are taking advan tage of the situation of Afghanistan, of the presence of Soviet troops in Afghan istan, to justify any intervention and aggression against the peoples of Latin

Involution and (ounter-'TRgvolution

America,(applause)

The work. Revolution and Counter-Revolution, is

the inspirer and basic book of the various, autono

We want to tell you, companions, we want to tell you, brothers, that the effort of everyone is not. . .in vain; that the fight of the peoples does not

ciples of wisdom that can be efficaciously applied to

stop even when they are murdered, when they are terrorized; that if 20

stop the advance of the Revolution in the U.S. and the great regions of the Free World.

mous Societies for the Defense of Tradition, Fam

ily and Property and like entities. It contains prin

years ago there were no governments

in Latin America disposed to say no to Yankee imperialism under any circum stance, now there already, are govern

ments on this continent disposed to say

no to Yankee imperialism (applause); and'that when in the 17th consultative

meeting of the OAS the United States presented a proposal to invade Nicar agua, the representatives of the Latin American governments at the OAS — a

majority

of the

representatives

—

opposed such measure. This measure was not fortuitous. It was not a result of

HIGH ACCLAIM

• Archbishop Romolo Carboni, Italy, Apostolic Nuncio; "The book. Revo lution .and Counter-Revolution, made

a magnificent impression on me. ..

I am certain that this book will do a

unique service for the Catholic cause, and will help unite the forces of good

in order to solve speedily the great cri ses of the present-day."

• The late Thomas Cardinal Tien, S.V.D., China: "It is a marvelous book!

an impulsive act by just anybody or dny person. But it was the result of the con

Those of us who personally suffer from

stant and permanent fight of the peo ples of our continent who have pressed

to calculate the accuracy and urgent ne

for

self-determination, for

an

anti-

imperialist attitude, for a sovereign at

titude, for a revolutionary attitude, (applause) Let unity be the immediate goal of

the effects of Communism are well able

cessity of a study such as this."

• The late Eugene CardinaVTisserant,

Vatican: "The theme of this study" is of the highest importance for the time in which we liyc . .."

• Bishop Victor Keuppens, Kamina, Congo: "This book is of primordial im portance in these troubled times for our world so off its axis."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Professor Plinio Corrca de Olivcira is

a distinguished professor of history at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is the founder and P res

1 The late Archbishop Oscar Romero: One of the Congress advocates.

22 CRUSADE

the }'cars. the author has written a num ber of works, such as: In Defense of Catholic Action,- The Church and the

Communist State, the Impossible Co

ident of the Brazilian Society for the De fense of Tradition, Family and Property

existence.

— the largest anti-communist organiza

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Christian Civilization, Inc., P.O. Box

so has a syndicated column in the T'otha de S. Paulo, the newspaper with the

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those fighting for national liberation.

Let unity be the chain that must be untied so we can march ahead with a

Foundation for a

firm step.

Long live the people of Brazil!

■ ■ ■

What Ever Happened to the Liberty Promised in 1789?

In his classic work on the French

Revolution, Pierre Gaxotte shows the

abysmal difference that exists between the respect shown by the Ancien Regime for the legitimate liberties of

contrary to human nature, it makes its habitat only in an atmosphere of police oppression, in which the needs of the individual and the family are sacrificed in behalf of the interests of the Party.

the individual and the family and the

In

strong inclination of the modern State

gimes

to meddle in the intimate lives of its

sequences of the French Revolution

citizens, a tendency which appeared

led to the implantation, to a greater or

with the advent of liberalism.

lesser degree, of societies having a to talitarian tendency, a set of conditions

Before the nineteenth century, men lived freely in the intimacy of their homes and family circles; a man was investigated only if he was seriously suspected of committing a crime, professing a heresy, or fomenting a conspiracy. A citizen of the liberal State, however, is always treated as

a suspect, even before doing some thing dangerous.

He is measured, weighed, and cata'loged by the agents of the State. File cards are kept on him by the most different agencies, as personal data on

countries

were

where totalitarian

not

installed,

re

the con

either imposed by a Messianic party or

determined by the idolatry of technology.

When technology replaces morality and society "emancipates" itself from the maternal tutelage of the Church, there is a withering of legitimate indi

vidual and family freedoms. Whether it is imposed by the State or by technol ogy, totalitarian society is the step mother of the "emancipated" man of the twentieth cenury.

MENTAL POLLUTION

him and his family are filed, compared, and

fvi,

life unbearable for men. In the 50's

are, how much he earns and where

and 60's, TFP leaders wrote a number

know

what

his

ideas

and

he invests his money, whether he has

of articles characterizing what people

a car or owns real estate, and so on.

are

Having written his book a few decades ago, Pierre Gaxotte could not cover the most sophisticated devices for investigating people's private lives.

pollution. Now it has become a ' to talk against smoke, noise of moii devastation of forests, and congested

Such devices now permit not only the State but just about any person or

organization

to record what people

discuss with their friends and relatives;

whether it be on the telephone, in their offices, or in their bedrooms.

i'l i -liui-.:' 'â&#x2013; f

-,

Gaxotte referred only to the liberal State.

This rather common looking wrist watch has a tiny radio transmitter and a telescopic antenna.

Idolatry of technology has made

cross-examined. The State wants habits

to

But out of liberalism came its

presently

calling

environmental

traffic.

In Lenin and Stalin's time, inter

national Communism promoted the development of super workmen to

function more or less as robots serving the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Now Communism preaches against the environmental pollution caused by in dustry when this helps to explain the

offspring, the totalitarian State. Whether

economic

it be of the fascist or communist variety,

countries or to weaken the economic

totalitarianism always has the goal of implanting socialism. Since socialism is

and military strength of the West.

Environmental pollution is obvious-

decadence

of the

socialist

CRUSADE 23

ly an evil, but we must keep a sharp eye on those who are fighting against

it. Above all, it is necessary to struggle against another, much more pernicious pollution, one that the leftist intelli

mm

r

gentsia hardly mentions if at all. We

refer to the mental and moral pollu tion created by a mass media that

wants to form people's thoughts and habits and to break down their families

by aggressive provocations to im morality, as well as that produced by the continuous barrage of advertising and propaganda and by the modern art that is deforming people's mentalities.

In the midst of this noisy traffic assaulting

the

mind, who can find

the calm to think about the pell-mell of events

with

discernment? Isn't it

true that contemporary man feels dazed under the daily load of discon certing and illogical reports on interna

Poptdar version of the storming of the Bastille by the revolutionary mob.

tional affairs?

Consider just one of the thousand frauds imposed on people every day: for many years now, the media have painted

Unfettering liberalism?

any anti-communist govern

ment as dictatorial and corrupt. Why is so little said about the crimes of

communist governments such as those of Russia, China, Cuba, Yugoslavia, and so on? Why is there such an out

cry for free elections in every part of the non-communist world but no up roar demanding free elections in the communist countries?

THE TECHNOLOGICAL "ALL SEEING EYE"

Separated from morality, technology makes life intolerable for man even in

what was formerly his-most intimate

privacy. Today, recorders and listening devices have become so developed that

The Communist State â&#x20AC;&#x201D; offspring ofliberalism?

no one can be certain that his conversa

tion is not being monitored.

It has always been relatively easy

ly constructed houses. Pages of a con

No doubt the KGB will find many

fidential report being typed by a secre

uses for these machines. . .

to intercept telephone communica tions. But now the science of bugging

tary can easily be photographed from another building over 100 yards away.

telephones has reached the point where conversations on a multiple wire cable can be picked by electronic

Our technology in this field is so ad

that was promised as a pretext for overthrowing the Ancien Regime and

vanced

"emancipating" society from the tu

means and recorded without any phy

companies to Russia to exhibit their

a baseless chimera. Never has the hu

sical

conversations can be monitored from

most modern anti-crime technology, such as machines that identify peo

a distance even through walls of solid-

ple by their voices, lie detectors, etc.

man race had a tyranny so oppressive and detailed as that imposed in the name of liberty by the French Revolution.

contact

24 CRUSADE

with

the

wire. Private

that the Soviet Chamber of

Commerce

invited

several

American

So

then,

the

unlimited

liberty

telage of the Church has proven to be

Qothic (athedral

Exuberant

French

soldiers marching in to Notre Dame

Cathedral of Paris

singing the Te Detim.

*1, Figures in the CaMthedralofChartres

[*2*:

i

mm k

.'

Faith and certainty can be felt all

Cathedral of RheimS:facade.

over the cathedral. In its presence, there ir'. ■

is no room for doubt. Even today, how

ever slight may be the attention paid to the histor\- elaborated on its imposing facade or to the mysteries unfolded in

m§m

its voluminous depths, the cathedral conveys an impression of serenity.

Therefore, let us forget our anxieties

IHf r

V

W' p7

and our routines for an hour and ap

proach the cathedral. From afar, with its transepts, its needles, and its towers,

'^ID.iliri

it resembles a powerful ship departing

for a long vovage. The whole city could, embark on its robust flanks without fear.

Let us draw closer.

In the portico, we suddenly come face to face with Our Lord Jesus Christ,

as does e\'ery man who enters this world. He is the key to the enigma of life:

and

around Him

is written the

answer to all of our questions. We learn how the world began and how it

iS''

i ' I?T

will end, and the images we see, each

one symbolizing an era of the world, give us the measure of its duration. Be

fore our eyes are those persons in the Old or New Testament who are figures of Jesus Christ, in short, all the men

whose history is worth knowing; be cause men do not exist except to the extent that they participate in the na ture of the Saviour. The others — kings,

conquerors, philosophers — are no more than names, empty shadows. In this way, then, the cathedral illuminates our minds: the world and its history

Tliili Recumbent image

become clear to us.

Constable Dugues-

But our own history is written along side that of this vast universe. Standing

clin at the royal abbey

ofSt. Denis, Paris.

before the cathedral, we learn that our

lives must be a combat — a struggle against nature in every season of the CRUSADE 25

year and

a struggle against ourselves

in every instant. From the heights of Heaven, the angels extend their hands to crown those who have waged the

good fight.

Is there place here for doubt, or even

for restlessness of spirit?

Let us enter.

The sublimity of its grand vertical

lines acts immediately upon our souls.

In fact, it is impossible to go through the great nave of Amiens without feel ing purified. The church, just by its beauty, acts like a sacrament. Here once

again we find an image of the universe.

The cathedral, like a plain, like a forest, has its atmosphere, its perfume, its

light, its chiaroscuros,its shadows.

As dusk settles, its great rose window with the sun setting behind it, looks

like the sun itself, ready to disappear in the fringes of a marvelous forest.

But it is a world transfigured, a world where the light is more brilliant than that of reality and where the shadows are more mysterious. We feel like we

A painting by Jean Fonquet, fifteenth century. are already in the bosom of the heaven

There the past and the present became

ly Jerusalem, of the city to come. We imbibe its profound peace; the tumult of the world breaks against the walls of

united in one same love.

The Cathedral

was the conscience

of the city.

the sanctuary and is reduced to a dis tant murmur: Behold the indestructible

—Emile Male, L'art religieux du Kill

ark against which the tempests will not

siecle en France, Tome II, conclusion, Librairie Arnxand Colin, Paris, 1969.

prevail. No place in the world fills men with such a profound senscofconfidence.

A symbol of faith, the cathedral was

mi

also a symbol of love.

Everyone worked on it. The people

offered what they had; their sturdy arms. They hitched themselves to the carts; they carried the rocks on their shoulders; they had the good will of the giant Saint Christopher.

The burgher gave his money; the baron, his land; the artisan, his genius.

For more than two centuries, all of the

vital forces of France worked together — hence the powerful life that radiates from these eternal works.

With the passage of time, even the

I, Si The nave of Amiens.

26 CRUSADE

dead joined the living. And the cathe dral became paved with tombstones.

The older generations, lying with their hands clasped on their tombstones,

Central rose windoxv-Notre Dame of

went on praying in the ancient church.

Paris.

-

••

Accompanied by a chorus of momen tary praises and lamentations and by a silent but real indifference in public

opinion, the communist dictator Tito was officially consigned to the past. The liberal press had made him appear to be a giant of a man, an independent spirit who had broken with the com-* munist bloc and opened a new avenue

of hope for the West. It was even being asked by some if Yugoslavia could sur vive without Marshal Tito. The fact is

that Joseph Broz (Tito) was no more a marshall than he was a great states

man, man of peace, or "non-aligned"

Witboxit crosses and with a parody of hierarchical ceremony, Tito's corpse is placed under a stone slab

by treacherously eliminating the natural

freedom: it is useless to me"{ci. Iglesia

leaders who were fighting for Christian civilization. Outstanding among them was the heroic and august figure of Car dinal Stepinac, who was persecuted

Mundo, no. 192, 2nd half of March, 1980)..

Cardinal Stepinac was sentenced to 16 years of forced labor and died in the village of Krasic, where he was confined.

When the shameful negotiations of Yalta began, De Gaulle wrote in his memoirs: "In the tripartite communique

politician. The former sergeant of World

by Tito and condemned to forced labor.

War I — born in 1892 — came to power

He was offered his freedom in exchange

as any Marxist leader does: by deceit,

for an admission of guilt. But the

betrayal, and cowardice. His stature

Cardinal refused.

was one of the' many bluffs palmed off by Communism in its psychological

the monkey tribunal, he spoke these

warfare against the West.

words:

One of the catastrophes of World War II was that it-provided the neces

'national junta,' thereby recognizing

conglomerate of heterogeneous nations,

"The private accuser frequently af firmed that nowhere in the world is there so much freedom of conscience as here, in this State. I permit myself to emphasize some facts that will prove the contrary. I affirm again before the

it was weakly united around King

whole world: 260 to 210 priests have

and only because of that, France has

Peter 11, whose father had been assas sinated in Marseille. The invasion of the

been executed by the National Libera

not been invited to the Conference"

tion Movement. ..We

(cf. The Last Hundred Days, H. D inger, Plaza & Janes, p. 161).

Born of Stalin, this "pampered child " of the Red powers and of the West

sary historic conditions for Broz to achieve When

dominion the

over

Yugoslavia.

Nazis invaded

that little

As Cardinal Stepinac stood before

have

been de

(Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) it is de

clared that the governing body will be made up of the members of the present de facto Tito's dictatorship. This is the way Stalin has fixed everything; he it is who has decided what was to be done

with Warsaw and Belgrade, and he has done it as he pleased. And that's why,

supported Broz to the detriment of the conservative politicians. His patron and

prived of our Catholic churches, built with so many difficulties, and the work of our seminaries has been made im possible. . .Our orphanages have been closed. Our printing presses have been

model was none other than Stalin. At

destroyed, and I don't know if they still

first Broz avoided the resistance move

exist. Is it not a scandal to affirm that

ments, but later someone or something let him know that the opportune mo ment had arrived. That opportune mo

nowhere is the Church as free as it is

First of all, he began the long process of annihilating his actual and potential

here?"

enemies. An eyewitness relates that in

ment, in which he joined the resistance, coincided historically with the rupture

battle of our times, he added: "Accord

1945) the communists murdered 12,000

ing to your theory, materialism is the

Slovenians on Tito's orders. Yet at that

between the Third Reich and the Soviets.

only scientific system possible. What

From then on Broz had a mysteri ous support that permitted him to climb

does this mean? This means: suppress

time, the whole population of Slovenia was less than 2 million people (cf.

God and Christianity. If there is nothing

letter of M. Dren, Buenos Aires Herald,

until he had taken over the resistance

but matter, then you can keep your

March 10, 1980). Years later. Vatican

Nazis provoked a reaction that prepared the atmosphere for the coup.

The allies — blindly or knowingly —

And raising his thoughts to the great

rendered enormous services to the com

munist cause by acting out the fiction of a non-aligned and free Communism.

a period of only two months (June-July

CRUSADE 27

sources estimated that the regime killed

sent its tanks into Yugoslavia as the Ger

or persecuted 2,000 priests (cf. En cyclopedia of the Catholic Religion,

mans began to weaken. Those persons who were naive enough to think of re

Dalmau Jover, item "Yugoslavia").

turning to their country were swiftly exterminated. Accordingly, the tyrant's

Some data on Tito's persecution of

reign was established with iron loops

the Church follows:

that shackled the population and sus tained him in power until his death.

• Bishop Simrak, diocese of Kri-

Once those manacles were firmly in place, he opened the borders of the country to thousands of tourists who,

zevil: died in prison from the brutalities he suffered.

• Bishop Carevic, diocese of Dubrov-

with

no concern for the victims of

nik: murdered and thrown into a well

Marxism (so long as they could enjoy

on his way to Church to celebrate Mass.

life a bit), brought in the money so scarce on that side of the Adriatic. In

• Bishop Vovk, diocese of Ljubljana: attacked by a group of communists, thrown to the ground, soaked with

addition, it must be noted (and to

gasoline, and burned alive.

from the United States and other free

our shame!) that Tito suffered from no

lack of military and economic assistance countries, especially after the treaties

• Msgr. Santin, delegate of the Holy

of 1949 and 1952. Meanwhile, as Tito

See for the administration of confirma

waxed fat and grew in artificial prestige, the tyrants of the Kremlin, his true friends, staged a show by crying out against his "revisionism." To confirm the fact that this noise was only theater,

tions died: a victim of communist agression.

• Msgr. Ukmar, replacement of Msgr.

Santin: attacked in the sacristy of Lanische, left with a fractured skull and other grave wounds.

Cardinal Stepinac, the most ilUistri-

both Brezhnev and Hua Kuo Feng

ous victim of Titoist tyranny. Con-

came to pay honors to him at his funeral.

• Fr. Miro Bulesic, companion of

detnned to forced labor, he ruas offered freedom in exchange for an adjnission

ru he founded the "third force," thus

Msgr. Ukmar when attacked: murdered.

of gxiilt. He refused and died in the village of Krasic, where he was confined.

In 1956, along with Nasser and Neh institutionalizing the movement of use ful idiots.

• Bishop Saric, diocese of Sarajevo, and Bishop Rozman, diocese of Ljub ljana, forced into exile.

This list, which could be extended,

represents only a fraction of the 371 murdered, 96 missing, 200 imprisoned, and 500 exiled priests. The Church in

Yugoslavia, laden with a long history of glory, was systematically destroyed; the churches were closed or destroyed; the convents and monasteries, sacked; the

religious and priests, murdered or per

Following these lines, and with the In Bleiburg, at the moment of the

approval and assistance of the West,

armistice, 130,000 Catholic Croatian

which pretended to ignore his crimes

refugees were turned away by the

and tyranny, Tito proceeded to tighten

English and handed over to the Tito-

the Party's control by butchering his enemies. And today, in a matter of hours, the Party can set in motion any actions they consider necessary "to keep the peace" among a people ex hausted by 35 years of brainwa

ists, who murdered them in unspeakable ways and threw them into pits. In the Diocese of Banja Luka, the Catholic population was reduced from 130,000

to 40,000, In Sarajevo, 50,000 fewer Catholics were counted in 1956 than

in 1939. . . (cf. Iglesia Miindo, no.

198, 2nd week of March, 1980,Madrid).

One could certainly ask why Tito

This, then, is the man who, sur rounded by the ruins of an enslaved

was never accused of war crimes before

people and the emptiness of a sleeping

secuted; the works of charity, anni hilated; the Catholic press, expropri ated by the communist State, and the religious schools, suppressed. The church

any tribunal. Was it perhaps because he

public opinion, was recently incensed

was among the victors? Or was it due

by numerous high ranking representa

on the Island of Bled, consecrated from

tp his merits as a communist chief?

tives at the international level. Kings,

time immemorial to the Virgin Mary, and a place of fervent popular pilgrim ages, was converted into a bar. The church of the Holy Virgin at Ptujska Gors, the most revered place of pilgrim age in Yugoslavia, was turned into a museum...

28 CRUSADE

While avoid ing direct military con

presidents, vice-presidents, communist chiefs, and religious personalities ga

frontation, Tito managed with relative

thered to bury the tyrant. But all of

ly little effort to terrorize 20 percent of the Yugoslav population into leaving the

this will in no way influence the eternal decree of Divine Justice, before which

country. In this undertaking, Tito had

this agent of the Kremlin has already

the support of the Soviet Army, which

been tried.

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