Tension Grows in Catholic Cuba As Castro Hits Out at Priests
HAVANA-Premier Fidel Castro interrupted his convalescence from pneumonia t@ appear on television Tuesday evening and attack Roman Catholic priests as "fascists and f.alangists" and responsible for the anti-communist demonstrations that took place in and around two Havana churches on Sunday and ·Monday. reports indi~ate that the Catholic Church is taking an increasingly critical position The Catholic in America against Castro's communistoriented policies. Castro's television barbs were especially aimed at the priests of Cuba, two-thirds of whom are Spanish. He accused them of being followers of Spain's Franco. . By Rev. Peter J. Rahill,Ph.i>. ..' On Sunday at a Mass celebrated in' the Cathedral here for This is the third" of a ~ries of articles reviewing the positloll 'victims of Red persecution, a and experience of' the practicing Catholic, in the Iile of the capacity crowd greeted the serAmerican community from Colonial times. The author holds • mon of Auxiliary Bishop Ed-, doctorate in American Church History, haS taught in various . Att Anclor of the Sr;ul. 8"''''(1 and r.irm-ST.PAUL uardo Boza Masvidal of' Havana universities, and is' presently . ArchiviS&· and Historian of ihe Archdiocese of .St. Louis. . asking for prayers for commune; Feill River, Thursday, July 21, 1960 ' ist victims with cheers. and More bitter than h~r father, Henry VIn, and detershouts of, "Cuba yes, Russia no!" . ©. '196'0' T''h' 'A :h' . PRICE lOc 0. 29 , .... C. . .,..' e nc or ,." $4.00 Per Y_ ,k\fter the Mass the~rQwd c(),m-: " . miI?-ed to pr.ot~<:~~l1~r.postti~m~s sove!~.ign, Eli~abeth J .?f. V :I 4 ing out of the Cathedral was 'met England' used every 'possible" means of suppressing her Second Clau Moil Privileges Au'th~ri~ed cit Fall River; Mall. • .' by a number of hecklers shoutCatholics'ubjects. Torture and deatli on" the scaffold were ing, "Cuba _yes, Yankees no!"· physical "barbarities "suf" " The churchgoers surrounded the closed, the New World was tlHt hecklers shouting anti-commun- fered by many. Virtually all only possible refuge for perse-' " " ist phrases until two of them had were afflicted by the fines elited Catholics. to be rescued by the police. imposed for failure to attend As early as 1583, both as spon:' Hoy, Havanna I communist the Anglican religious services.. ' SOl'S and as emigrants, Catholica " . newspaper, 'called the Mass Ii . In the late 15QO's the jail and par·t'· IClpa t e d In an expe d't' I lOll ~ Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D:, .Bishop of 'the "political maneuver" by Castro's prisons beunder Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In " " e n e m i e s ai)d called those who . ' I M. ass .0f R eqmem .. " fight the Reds "ag'ents and" serv- came so overa dIsaster off the coast of Maine' I lca D iocese, ceIe b rat e d a S 0 Iemn .P on't'f" crowded with' immigrants perished together this morning in St. Jacques Church, Taunton, for the soul ants of imperialism." impoverished with Catholic hopes for an of Rev. William Joseph Smith,pastor of the parish for·the Again, on Monday another Catholics that American refuge. While a few "anti-communist demonstration" the local offif ..th e faithful participated' in ast 10 years. Father Smith ['70 P took place in and around a cials begged oth~r ventures, the failUl'e of in the rectory ~, church , thOIS tl'me at th e Capu dl'ed sllddenly • . ,'i. .. the Queen to these 'attempts caused the 16tb SUilday night. He had ob- ,>. chin Fathers Church of Jesus in send no more. century to pass with no settlegel:ved the 40th anniversary the fashionable Miramar section Thus Elizment for them opened in the of his ordination last May 29, of the city. The occasion was a abeth was .New World.. / when he was feted by parishionTurn to Page Four faced with a· Not one of the old Catholie ers and friends at a banquet foldouble dilfamilies but a convert furnished lowing an anniversary Mass at . ! emma for she the means and the leadership which Bishop Connolly officidid not want to exile wealthy of the first and only successful ated. and influential Catholics. Conse- Catholic settlement. As a grad\!Son of Louis and Ozias (Goy:quently; the Acts of 1593 pro- ate of Oxford, it was after James ette) Smith, Father Smith was hited them from leaving. I had succeeded. Elizabeth that born in Fall River on Feb. 14, WASHINGTON (NC) Oh the other hand, those who George Calvert returned from IA 1893. He was educated at Notl'e " Catholic" families should as- had no more than a pittance or tour of' the continent. Dame School and Assumptioll sociate with families worthy less were urged to quit the From James "'atholics had College, Worcester and comof imitation, Msgr. Irving A. kingdom. This same law made hoped for toleration because of pieled his studies for the priestDeBlanc said here. it treasonable for them to go to his own Catholic backgroun<L hood at St. Mary's Seminal'y the continent. With all Europe Turn to Page Eighteen Bartimol'e and at the Sulpician Msgr. DeBlanc, director of the Seminary in Washington, D. C. Family Life B'.lreau, National , Ordained by Cardinal Catholic Welfare Conference, He was ordained in the Cathe. was commenting on a report, in "'al- in' Baltimore by the late. the July 4 issue of Time maga'Turn to Page Twelve' .REV. WILLIAM SMITH 'zine which quoted him as saying 'Catholics should' avoid close .
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SANTANDER :(NC)-The Holy, See's envoy to SpalIi' has ·defEmded· the Church's role in the period following' Spain's bloody civil war. At a reception fQrdelegates at the international congress of the Catholic press, Archbishop Ildebrando 'Antoniutti, Apos- a million persons,. including 1& , tolie Nuncio toSpain,said.: bishoPs':'lnd 7,000 R~lig~ous: "I k' 1 tId t . ,ArchbIshop Alltomut~l salek ,see on y 0 ea o. an. Saved Country understanding of Qte Church "With' their heroic resistance, of Spain, which is the field. of sufferings and martyrs, the my mission, because I know that Spanish, Catho~ics saved the you Catholic journalistS wish to country and preserved their, receive'some indication of the ·priceless. religious and cultural present realities of the Church;" heritage." He recalled', the' defense of He reminded the newsmen of Spain's "Christian, civilization" the Church's warnings against: in the tragic war which between direct or indirect collaboratioD 1936 and 1939, brought death to . Turn to Page Fourteen
Jack Kennedyls Nomination Third for Catholic
WASHINGTON (NC)-Nommalion·of Sen. JohnF. Kennedy as' the 'Democratic candida"te for Pl'esidimt 'of' the' United,' Stat~s . marks the third time that a Catholic was so honored. No Catholic ha~ ever been elected President nr 'Vice President of the U. S. Both previous nominees were devout and practicing Qatholics at the time of their nomination. and remained so the rest of their lives. The first, Charles 'O'Conor, was the candidate of the insurgent Democrats in 1872. 1\ resident of 'New York 'City, "where he was bom in 1804, he was the son of an Irish immigrant. He became a prominent attorney and won many famous cases. Mr. O'Conor, though not opposed to slavery, was a firm believer in state's rights. In Janual'y, 1861, he presided over the so-called "Pine Street Meet:. lng," in an effort to dissuade the South 'froin secession. He disap- . Pl'Qved of the use of arllled force
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held anottier convention' at Louisville, . in September. They' nominated O'Conor for Presi:' ident. and John Quincy Adams of Massachu'setts for Vice Presi-' det'lt. Both men were also lectedby . the 'Llibor-Reform pa~ty when' their original nom';' inees ~eclined to'run. Although O'Conor refused to be a candidate and did not take part in the cain'paign, his name along with that of Adams ap· 'peared on the' ballot as 'the Straight-Out Democratic ticket. Greeley and B. Gratz Brown were the nominees of the other Democrats' and also the Liberal Republicans. At the election of Nov. 5, 1872, Charles O'Conor received 29,489' votes. The regular Republican ticket of Gen. . Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson won' the election with 3,597,132 votes. Although anti-Catholic feeling existed at the time, there was IlO Turn to Pag-e Twelve
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