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ST. MARY'S SCHOOL — Pictured here is the new St. Mary’s School, Augusta. The
new school was dedicated last Sunday by Bishop McDonough. The twelve classroom
school is staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
ORIGINAL PLAYS BY CONTEMPORARY
AUTHORS ON TV’S ‘CATHOLIC HOUR’
Cuban Regime Trying To Kill
laftolio Influence, Put In
Communism, Archbishop Says
NEW YORK (NC)—Four
original plays by contemporary
Catholic playwrights will be
featured on the October tele
vision series of “The Catholic
Hour.”
On another nationwide
Catholic TV program, “Lamp
Unto My Feet,” problems of
psychology and moral theology
was dramatized and discussed
on October 9.'
The experience of an Ameri
can Air Force pilot returned
from communist captivity pro
vides material for the first play
on “The Catholic Hour.” En
titled “The War for Geoffrey
Wilson,” was seen on October
9.
On October 16 a comedy-
drama entitled “The Isle Is
Full of Noises,” written by
Robert Orean, will be shown.
•It will be followed on October
23 by a monodrama about a
would - be suicide entitled,
“Beautiful Johnnie,” written
by Father Dominic Rover, O.P.
The final play in the series
will be a comedy on family
life by Leo Brady, entitled
“My Enemy, My Son.” It will
be seen on October 23.
“The Catholic Hour” is pro
duced by the National Coun
cil of Catholic Men in coopera
tion with the NBC-TV net
work. It is broadcast at 1:30
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SANTIAGO, Cuba — The
Archbishop who saved Fidel
Castro’s life seven years ago
has accused the Castro regime
of trying to destroy Catholic
influence in Cuba and replace
it with communism.
“They are doing this not just
step by step, but in great
strides,” said Archbishop En
rique Perez Serantes of Santi
ago in a pastoral letter.
The 76-year-old prelate said
that most of the men who
fought for Fidel Castro were
Catholics, but communists had
reaped the fruits of Castro’s
victory.
“Should we meekly and sil
ently tolerate it when the com
munists are the ones to give
our heroes lessons in patriot
ism?” he asked.
Archbishop Perez Serantes
saved Fidel Castro’s life in
1953 when Castro was the
hunted leader of a revolution
ary coup that failed. At that
time Archbishop Perez Seran
tes secured a promise of a full
civil trial for Castro, who had
expressed the fear he would be
shot upon capture, and per
suaded Castro to give himself
up.
Archbishop Perez Serantes
was the first churchman to de-
p. m., EDT, and is seen in
some areas on a delayed basis.
A check of local program list
ings is advised by NCCM
spokesmen.
On the “Lamp Unto My
Feet” program, Father George
Hagmaier, C.S.P., coauthor . of
the book “Counselling the
Catholic” will exchange opin
ions with Dr. George Crothers,
the program’s moderator.
The program is broadcast by
the CBS-TV network in coope
ration with th'e National
Council of Catholic Men. It is
shown at 10 a. m. EDT, but like
“The Catholic Hour” is soen
on a delayed basis in some
areas.
nounce publicly the encroach
ment of communism upon Cas
tro’s revolutionary govern
ment. That was in May of this
year. His latest pastoral was
read in all churches of the
archdiocese.
The immediate occasion of
the Archbishop’s pastoral let
ter was the government’s sup
pression of five Catholic radio
programs in Santiago. They
were all terminated when the
government placed under “in
tervention” radio station
CMKC here. Such “interven
tion” is a customary prelude to
confiscation.
The government also sup
pressed Catholic radio and tel
evision programs in Havana,
leaving Catholics without ef
fective means of reaching the
largely illiterate Cuban people.
Archbishop Perez Serantes
said: “Never did the Cuban
people think that the jiron
hand, the loveless hand of com
munism would hang threaten
ingly over our heads. Never
did they think that the lean
devotees of Marx and Lenin
would be the ones to snatch
from us the well earned crown
of victory. Never did they
think that those (devotees of
Marx and Lenin) would tell
the country’s heroic volunteers
how they should act, to the
point of ordering us to be con
fined to our churches and braz
enly telling us how to act
while in them . .
He deplored the accusations
of treason now being hurled at
Catholics, who were mainly re
sponsible for the success of the
revolution.
He denied Castroist charges
that the Church in Cuba is an
instrument of U. S. policy.
“T h e authorities of North
America have never exercised
any influence over us, either
directly or indirectly, nor have
the Falangists or Francoists
ever exercised such influence,”
the Archbishop declared. “He
who affirms to the contrary is
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PHILADELPHIA (NC) — A
clinic maintained by a U. S.
sisterhood on the outskirts of
Havana, Cuba, has been evac
uated because of the U. S.
State Department’s admonition
to Americans to leave Cuba.
The clinic was operated in a
poor suburb of Havana, called
Mariano, since 1948 by the
Missionary Sisters of the Most
Blessed Trinity. When word
cpme from the State Depart
ment that Americans should
leave Cuba, Mother Mary Se-
bastain, Mother Superior, sent
word from headquarters here
to the Sisters stationed at the
clinic to return to Philadel
phia.
The Sisters are Sister Genna,
superior; Sister Marie Inear-
nata, Sister Dorothea, all from
the U. S. mainland; and Sister
Maria Socorro, a Puerto Rican.
The Sisters, it was reported
here, were reluctant to leave
the clinic, which was estab
lished and conducted under the
direction of a parish operated
by the Augustinian Fathers.
Besides working at the cli
nic, the Sisters also taught
Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine classes and did other
parish work.
It was reported from Havana
that the Sisters had been sub
jected to unfriendly pressures
from the supporters of Fidel
Castro in their area.
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Archbishop replied that it yras
irregular to deliver documents
on a courtesy call but agreed
to receive them. The docu
ments were a memorandum of
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THE BULLETIN, October 15, 1960—PAGE 9
NEW SCHOOL — Pictured here is one of the twelve classrooms of the new St.
Mary’s School, Augusta.
mistaken and in any case does
not tell the truth.”
Archbishop Perez Serantes
continued: “However, we are
not ashamed to say — and it
would seem cowardice not to
say — that if we had to make
a choice between the North
Americans and the Soviets,
there would be no hesitancy on
our part.
“In so choosing, we love
Cuba and we owe everything
to her . . .”
He urged the government to
respect the rights of Catholics
and their place within the de
mocracy.
“And this everywhere,” he
continued, “not only inside the
churches, which have already
been profaned many times re
cently by irreverent and
shameless invasions under the
pretext of defending interests
that the Catholics never tram
pled on.”
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