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Each Account Insured Up To $10,000.00 SAVE BY MAIL Cuba's Catholics Regard Castro Regime With Guarded Approval On Basis Of Its Three-Month Record By Jaime Fonseca Mora (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) The regime of revolutionary- leader Fidel Castro has now been in power in Cuba for three months, enough time to gauge the impact of its rule on the nation’s overwhelming Catholic majority and to assess the posi tion of the Church under the new government. Since Castro’s forces over threw the dictatorship of ex- President Fulgencio Batista last New Year’s Day, much criticism of his policies has been voiced in the U. S. and elsewhere, most often in connection with the mass trails and executions of war criminals and alleged com munist influence. Against this background of criticism, a look at the attitude taken by Cuba’s Catholic lead ers themselves can contribute a great deal to clarifying and un derstanding the present situa tion. 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On the basis of its three- month record Catholic opinion regards the Castro regime as mainly to correct what it views as the worst abuses of the Batista past: social injustice, public corruption and wide spread oppression. On the other hand, Catholic leaders see a less favorable pic ture when they look at govern ment refusals to accede to cer tain important Catholic de mands, particularly in the field of education. They do not, how ever, view these refusals as war ranting the charges that have been made in some publications of open government hostility to the Church. Probably the strongest reason why Catholic leaders are back ing the new regime is their knowledge that forces inimical to the Church are strongly vying for control of Cuba’s future. They know that victory for these groups—which include communist s—would doom Christian influence on the island and probably lead to the re turn of dictatorship. In their opinion the Castro rebellion against what they re gard as the tyranny and atroci ties. of the Batista era was mor ally justified. Still another reason for their support of the new regime is the Catholic leader’s conviction that national unity and the coun sel of Church authorities is vitally necessary to overcome the tremendous obstacles to the moral, social and economic re construction sought by the revo lution as it enters its second and more difficult phase. While- the Church has differences with the government, it is possible to discuss them freely and Cath olic leaders do not want to let them become a barrier to co operation between the Church and the regime. They are also supporting Cas tro because they believe his re gime has shown strong Chris tian tendencies in its sincere ef fort to achieve administrative honesty and bring about social reform. Strongly nationalistic, the new regime regards the government as the major instrument to be used in bringing about the radi cal changes it believes neces sary, an attitude which gives it a socialistic flavor. Church lead ers go along with the view that at present government-by-de cree is the only way to attain reconstruction and protect the common welfare, especially since very little has been done in Cuba by private initiative to provide for social assistance or education for the masses. Catholic leaders thus approve of the government’s action in launching a program of land re form, starting construction of housing developments for the needy, bringing the prices of food and necessary services within the reach of the masses and striving to provide more and better schools. They likewise look with favor on its successful efforts to clean up governmental departments and do away with sinecures and bribes. CRENSHAW BICYCLE SHOP Authorized Huffy Dealer New—Rebuilt—Repairs—Supplies “Pick-up and Delivery” 757 Hemphill Ave., N.W. TR. 6-1774 Atlanta, Ga. BETHUNE & WHISENANT SHOE REPAIR CEdar 3-1906 2581 Piedmont Rd. Broadview Plaza Upper Level by Cafeteria JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL 115 Forrest Ave., N. E. JA. 3-8550 “Around the Comer from Sacred Heart Church” Day And Evening Classes While all these things are to the credit of the Castro regime, there are also a number of items on the debit side. One of these is the govern ment’s refusal to grant the re quest of a number of prelates and laymen for the introduction of religious instruction in the country’s public schools. These Catholic leaders made their re quest on the grounds that igno rance of God and Christian mor ality had led to the evils of the immediate past. The request, however, led to a storm of protest from Masons, Marxists and other freethinkers, as well as from some Protestant groups. Castro, who had at first favored religious instruction in the schools, gave in to the pro tests. Minister of education Arman do Hart then promised to have Christian morality taught in the schools but said that, because of tradition and constitutional requirements, public schools will continue to be strictly secular. At. the same time he quieted fears that Catholic schools would suffer restrictions because of the controversy aroused by the request. Now that the storm has died down, many qualified observers have noted that, in view of the difficulties facing the regime in other areas, raising the question of religious instruction, while a valid one for Catholics to bring up, was untimely and did not take adequate account of the state of Cuban public opinion. A group of priests, after re portedly discussing the question with Church authorities, issued a statement saying: “As Catholics we have to de fend the right to (introduce) re ligious instruction in the schools and the Church has reminded everyone of this . . . But no one is talking about a union between Church and state . . . Above all there has been no desire to create difficulties for the gov ernment or start religious con flicts. If the petition (for reli gious education) is going to create difficulties at a time when the need is for unity and work, we are willing to avoid any obstacles.” Another major issue which has involved the Church is the manner in which those accused of crimes against Castro’s fol lowers and others have been tried and executed. Catholics have been united in condemning the atrocities committed by Batista henchmen and, when criticism of Castro’s treatment of war criminals reached Cuba, a number of Catholic writers, including some priests, stated that the trials were fair and the death penalties just. However, Auxiliary Bishop Alfredo Meller of Havana de clared that he was against capi tal punishment. The Church, he said, tends always to forgive and only accepts a death penalty in clearly justified cases. He did not elaborate. In Santiago—the hotbed of the Castro rebellion-—Archbish op Enrique Perez Serantes, who had once saved Castro’s life when it was threatened by Batista executioners, urged the Cuban leader to stop the execu tions. Clemency is a greater virtue than justice, he declared. His plea went unheeded. Exe cutions were halted during Holy Week, but trials have since been speeded up in several places and the total number of executions is now nearing 500. Bishop Alberto Martin Villa- verde of Matanzas, however, has given the swift trials and harsh sentences of the military courts qualified approval. He said that without them the relatives of the 10,000 or 15,000 persons tor tured or murdered during the Batista era might have taken justice into their own hands and started a chain reaction of kil lings that would have brought death to many innocent people. On the other hand, Catholics have strongly criticized the cir cus-like atmosphere surround ing the trial in late January of a Batista official, Sosa Blanco, who was sentenced to death. Many Catholics, too, find it hard to justify the retrial of a group of 43 airmen charged with atrocities. They were first brought to trial and acquitted by Castro’s own military tribu nal. Then, on the order of the re volutionary leaders, they were tried by another court and sen tenced to stiff jail terms. 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