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believe they can press for a
showdown.
Another reported instance of
Church-state conflict involved
alleged difficulties concerning
the few priests who had served
as chaplains with the Castro
forces. These priests, reports
claimed, had been removed from
their posts. This matter was put
in its proper perspective when
it was learned that Protestant
and communist complaints, not
the action of rebel leaders, had
caused the friction.
Actually several chaplains—
if the loose arrangement of car
ing spiritually for troops and
prisoners without appointment
or pay gives them that title—
are still holding religious serv
ices in army barracks.
These priests and the rebel
command are waiting for the
return of Father Guillermo
Sardinas, the first priest to join
the rebel forces as a chaplain, to
regularize the situation.
The Protestants pulled their
two chaplains out of the Castro
forces as soon as the fighting
was over, saying that the Cuban
army, like the state, should be
strictly secular. However, both
soldiers and prisoners have in
sistently asked for the priests’
services and the rebel command
has acceded to their requests.
Other requests from Catholic
circles have also been granted
by Castro. Gambling, for ex
ample, while still permitted in
the big tourist casinos, now ope
rates under strict regulation and
heavy taxes on profits go into
legitimate charities. Prostitution
is likewise being curtailed.
Catholic workers have asked
for more schools, vocational
training, fair wages and similar
things. Action in this regard
has been postponed but is in
the government’s plans for the
future.
A final Church-state issue
concerns the Catholic University
of Villanueva, operated by
American Augustinian Fathers.
Its degrees have been affected
by a law which, in an attempt
to annul diplomas granted by
pro-Batista institutions, has
dealt a blow to those given by
legitimate colleges and univer
sities. Private negotiations are
now under way to find a fair
means of aiding pro-Castro stu
dents who left their classes to
fight against Batista and of de
claring invalid the degrees of
the pro-Batista schools.
There are, of course, many
internal problems ' testing the
energy and endurance of the
youthful Castro regime, but
Catholic opinion in Cuba holds
that the overall result of the
revolution has been a return
to respect for the natural law,
for the dignity of the individual,
for justice to the poor, for free
dom, honesty and patriotism.
In this return to respect for
the natural law Catholics see a
wide field for their apostolate.
Moreover, Castro realizes that
his revolution owes much to
militant cooperation of Catho
lics in all walks of life. He is
willing to receive this coopera
tion although, while born and
educated as a Catholic, he does
not practice the Faith.
He also knows, Catholic lead
ers realize, that as a political
leader at a difficult time in a
country with a strong secularis-
tic past, national unity is a
necessary for rebuilding the
country. He will therefore avoid
any issue which threatens on
religious grounds to disrupt such
unity.
These considerations, Catholic
leaders believe, call for their
continued support of the Castro
regime. They believe that they
must contribute to the national
reconstruction and their con
tributions show the enemies of
the Church their strength and
watchfulness.
If they continue their backing,
they say, a Christian atmosphere
can be strengthened in Cuba.
If they stand-aside, they fear,
the Marxists will take over.
INTELLECTUAL
ROLE STRESSED
ATCHISON, Kan., (NC) —
Educational theorists should
not forget that “the special
function of the teacher is to
teach”- rather than promote
character-building, a Catholic
educator said here.
As a child grows older “the
properly intellectual mission of
the school should stand out in
ever more emphatic form,” Dr.
Vincent E. Smith, professor of
philosophy at Notre Dame Uni
versity, declared in an address
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APPROACH TO PRAYER, by
Dom Hubert Van Zeller, O.S.B.,
Sheed & Ward, $2.50.
(Reviewed by Rt. Rev. Msgr.
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A book, enlightening and
challenging and comforting, to
be read slowly and reflectively
or not at all, because its values
are too precious to be squan
dered on the careless reader.
The challenge and the compli
ment, which our composite na
ture holds for us, are confirmed
by common sense and delineated
by Moses in the inspired words
of Genesis, find in the Approach
to Prayer their implementation
and attainment. Reading re
flectively this book is like ex
periencing a high romance and
as its development unfolds
there is the feeling how full
might have been the years had
only its contents been known
sooner. From it one under
stands better the omnipresence
of God, the indwelling of Christ,
and the comforting consonance
of God’s will. Dom Hubert with
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how to live and live abundant
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VIRTUES ON PARADE, by
Rev. John F. Murphy, Bruce,
$2.95.
(Reviewed by Margot Atwood)
Here is a parade indeed. Vir
tues appear in all their splen
dor, bright, positive givers of
joy, rather than distasteful, un
attainable things.
Ip his explanatory word, Fa
ther Murphy sounds his key-
at St. Benedict’s College.
Dr. Smith conceded, however,
that with the very young child
the teacher must act as “a kind
of f o s t e r-mother, providing
many non-aeademic instru
ments. that ease the transition
from the home to the school.”
note: “No matter how we fight
against it, we are made to be
good. The saints are always the
happiest people. They prove
that virtue is its own reward.”
The author follows the class
ical order of St. Thomas, cov
ering the virtues (good habits)
needed in a large variety of
man’s activities. No attempt is
made to add to this great work,
of course, but only to simplify
it in its contemporary applica
tion. Interest is sustained by
provocative how-to titles, e.g.,
“How to By-Pass Purgatory,”
and by challenging opening
paragraphs. Humorous applica
tions to everyday situations are
generously sprinkled through
each brief essay or chapter.
This small volume will be
enjoyed by those who are seek
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find deeper spiritual reading
tedious. Virtues on Parade is
light and penetrating, yet al
ways practical.
GO WITH GOD, by Jim Bish
op, McGraw-Hill, $5.00.
(Reviewed by Cecelia L. Hines)
Jim Bishop is a Catholic
writer whose remarkable career
as journalist-author-editor-pub
lisher includes newspapers, mag
azines, books and feature syn
dicates. Author of The Day
Christ Died, The Day Lincoln
Was Shot, and five previous
books, Mr. Bishop at 50 is na
tionally syndicated as a column
ist.
But Mr. Bishop, like most of
our top-drawer American writ
ers, is not well known in Cath
olic reading circles. He, like
the others, has made his repu
tation outside the field of Cath
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Jim Bishop was working on
a collection of his own favorite
prayers when his wife died. So,
in his grief and sorrow, he ex
tended the book to a collection
of prayers from many sources
and for many needs.
Many of his own prayers were
to the Virgin of Guadalupe. He
tells us he was sent to Mexico
by a magazine editor to write
about her and, after much re
search, decided the evidence
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was in favor of the apparition.
It became his habit, once a
day, to ask her protection for
his family. The pages which fol
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the most inspired and gifted
hagiographer.
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