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PAGE v THE BULLETIN, December 10, 1960
Catholics Accuse Castro Regime
Of Defaming Bishop, University
HAVANA, (NC) — Catholic
organizations in Cuba have
circulated a handbill accusing
Premier Fidel Castro’s regime
of defaming Villanueve Uni-
\ersity and its rector, Auxili
ary Bishop Eduardo Boza Mas
vidal of Havana.
The handbill charges that
the university and its rector
are targets of a “systematic
campaign of public defama
tion.” It says the purpose of
this campaign is “to destroy
their good name before the
Cuban people.”
The 13 organizations that
signed the accusation said that
any direct or indirect aggres
sion against Vallanueva or its
rector would be “an unjusti
fied attack against the Church,
the integrity of its educational
institutions and the principle
of free teachings.”
The government and stu
dent organizations controlled
by it have brought heavy
pressure on the university and
Bishop Boza Masvidal. It is
feared that the next govern
ment step against Villanueve
may, be the expulsion of all
foreign teachers. The univer
sity was established after
World War II bv the Ameri
can branch of the Augustin-
ians.
Another handbill circulated
by Catholics contains strong
criticisms of the Castro re
gime by Bishon Boza Masvidal.
The Bishop said that Catholics
supported the revolution and
its original aims but now de
plore its drift toward com
munism and against religion.
Premier Castro renewed his
attack on the university while
the handbills were being cir
culated.
The attack was part of a
violent diatribe directed
against Catholic priests in gen
eral and also against the U. S.
government. Mr. Castro was
speaking at Havana Univer
sity.
He charged that priests ac
cepted bribes from sugar com
panies to oppose his revolu
tion. He called priests “hood
lums in cassocks.”
Hears Of
Efforts To
Aid Ex-Cubans
By Marjorie Fillyaw
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
MIAMI, Fla., — The struggle
of the Church here to care
for Cuban refugees seeking its
help was outlined for a repre
sentative of President Eisen
hower and an official of the,
U.S. Catholic relief agency.
Tracy Voorhees, named by
President to look into the
problems of the 30,000 refu
gees in the Miami area, was
told about 15,000 Cubans have
sought assistance from the Mi
ami diocese’s downtown Span
ish center.
Bishop Coleman F. Carroll
of Miami, whose diocese has
spent nearly $100,000 and per
formed services from traffic
school to job hunting, talked
with Mr. Voorhees.
Also present was Msgr. John
J. Fitzpatrick, a permanent
member of Miami’s Cuban
Refugee Committee and exec
utive editor of the Voice, dio
cesan newspaper.
Edmund E. Cummings, ex
ecutive assistant of the re
settlement division of Catholic
Relief Services — National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
New York, held a separate
session with Father Bryan O.
Walsh, diocesan director of
Catholic Charities.
Mr. Voorhies visited “Centro
Hispano Catolico” (Hispanic
Catholic Center), a one-year-
old diocesan office staffed by
four Spanish-speaking Domin
ican priests and six Sisters.
Msgr. Fitzpatrick said 15,-
000 Cubans had sought help
there, including about 2,500
heads of families who could
not find work.
The center has been able to
get jobs for about 500 persons,
he said, by referring appli
cants to local employment
agencies a n d by publicizing
the need for work which exists
among refugees.
A total of 500 persons at
tend the center’s weekly in
structions in English and its
traffic classes, conducted in
Spanish.
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Micas! Radio Replies To
Soviet Charges Tlat Church
Is Enemy Of African Freedom
(Radio, NCWC News Service)
VATICAN CITY —. Vati
can Radio gave an immediate
reply to Soviet charges that
the Vatican is “the most im
placable enemy of liberation
movements among colonial
peoples” in Africa.
“The truth is that this Soviet
propaganda is contradicted by
past and recent historical
facts,” a Vatican Radio com
mentator said.
Vatican Radio replied (Nov.
28) to the Red attack the day
after it was published in the
Soviet Communist party news
paper Pravda. Pravda’s edi
torial was entitled “Colonial
ists in Cassocks.”
The Vatican Radio broad
cast said .Catholic missions
contributed to cultural, civil
and social maturity in the Af
rican nations and “brought
them to the threshold of in
dependence and freedom.”
It pointed out that the Holy
See had fostered a native cler
gy and developed a native
episcopacy. It pointed out that
the Church had created a Ne
gro cardinal, Laurian Cardinal
Rugambwa, Bishop of Buko-
ba, Tanganyika.
The broadcast emphasized
how the Church had for years
devoted itself to the forma
tion and education of an Afri
can laity capable of assuming
the highest responsibilities in
public life with full civic and
Christian maturity.
It pointed out that some of
the most prominent leaders of
today’s Africa are products of
mission schools.
The Vatican Radio commen
tator went on to quote state
ments of the Catholic Bishops
of South Africa, the Congo, the
Sudan and Rhodesia defending
the right of “a progressive en
lightened desire for full auto
nomy and independence.”
Finally, he quoted appeals
by the late Pope Pius XII and
His Holiness Pope John XXIII
for every assistance to the new
African nations to help them
develop their new freedom
“free from prejudices, protect
ed against false nationalism
and capable of extending to
those peoples the real values
of Christian civilization.”
LAYHEX ROST laSHK
MISTY OF JUSTICE
OF SCHOOL HID PLEA
(N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)
CINCINNATI—Catholic lay
men must persuade the gen
eral community that their ar
guments for public assistance
in sending their children to
Catholic schools are just, ac
cording to Archbishop Karl J.
Alter of Cincinnati.
“We don’t want any direct
subsidy to Church or school,”
he said, “but we don’t object
to parents’ receiving aid to
the extent of the cost of edu
cating the children in public
schools.”
“Why shouldn’t the school
board give the money to the
parents to pay to the school
of their choice?” he asked.
“The justice, equity and
practicability of such a plan
must be demonstrated,” Arch
bishop Alter told 850 delegates
to the biennial convention of
the Cincinnati Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Men (Nov.
27).
He added that it is “up to
the laity” to “e d u c a te the
community to the justice of
this position.”
The Archbishop stressed
that U.S. Catholics support the
public school system. If public
schools didn’t exist, “we’d have
tq create them,” he said.
In order to correct misun
derstandings about the Church
and achieve effective public
relations, Catholic laymen
“must carry more weight in
civic community activities,” he
said.
“We must carry our share of
community responsibility in
programs of relief and charity
and social welfare,” he stated.
“We cannot be living in an
exclusive enclave of our own,”
The convention also heard
the executive secretary of the
National Office for Decent
Literature warn that paper
back books “specializing in
perversion” have become a
national problem.
Msgr. Thomas J. Fitzgerald
of Chicago said that three
years ago there were only 17
publishers of popular paper
backs, but today there are 35.
“Most the new publishers
are concentrating on perver
sion,” he charged.
The convention adopted
resolutions calling for “greater
participation by the laity in
the liturgy” and the “promo
tion of religious education of
children by their parents in
the home.”
Nun Is Nation's
Leading Commuter
NEW ORLEANS (NC) —
Sister Maty Magdalen is
probably the nation’s leading
long-distance commuter.
Every Friday afternoon Sis
ter Magdalen boards a jet in
New Orleans and flies to New
York. Every Sunday she
boards a jet in New York and
flies back to New Orleans in
time to meet her Monday
classes at Dominican High
School, where she teaches
Spanish.
Her commuting, which will
continue throughout the school
year, makes it possible for her
to attend the weekly meetings
in New York of the consul
tants to the Modem Language
Materials Development Cen
ter.
The center was set up under
the National Defense Educa
tion Act to develop high school
language programs and ma
terials in French, German,
Italian, Spanish and Russian.
Sister Magdalen . is the only
nun on the 18-member panel
of consultants. Her traveling
expenses and those of other
members who come from
many parts of the country —
are paid for by the govern
ment.
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Calendar
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
SUNDAY, December 11 —
Third Sunday of Advent. Gen
erally this date is the feast of
St. Damasus I, Pope-Confes
sor. He was a native of Rome
and attended Pope Liberius in
exile. He succeeded Pope Lib
erius. He commissioned St.
Jerome to correct the Latin
text of the Holy Scriptures. St.
Damasus is famous for having
restored and beautified in
Rome the tombs of the mar
tyrs. He died in 384 at the
age of 80.
MONDAY, December 12 —
Our Lady of Guadalupe. This
feast commemorates the appa
rition of the Blessed Mother to
a humble Indian, Juan Diego,
in 1531 on Tepeyac hill near
Mexico City. The great Basili
ca of Our Lady of Guadalupe
now stands on the spot of the
apparition. Pope Benedict XV
decreed Our Lady of Guada
lupe as patroness of Mexico.
TUESDAY, December 13 —
St. Lucy of Syracuse,, Virgin-
Martyr. She was a Sicilian and
one of the most famous of the
martyrs put to death under
Dioceltian about 304. She is
commemorated daily in the
Canon of the Mass. While
Christians were being sought
out, she distributed her wealth
to the poor and was denounc
ed by a young noble to whom
her mother wished to give her
in marriage. She endured tor
tures at Syracuse, and was put
to death by a sword driven
through her throat.
WEDNESDAY, December 14
—St. Nicasius and Compan
ions, Martyrs. St. Nicasius was
Bishop of Rheims. With his sis
ter, St. Euthropia, and a num
ber of the clergy and faithful,
he was put to death for the
Faith by barbarians who in
vaded Gaul about 407.
THURSDAY, December 15—
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Martyrs. They were a group
of 22 martyrs who were put to
death for the Faith about 258
in the Valerian persecution.
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urnius and Victor.
FRIDAY, December 16 —
St. Eusebius, Bishop-Martyr.
He was the scion of a noble
family of Sardinia. He was
taken to Rome by his mother,
where he was ordained. He
served the Church at Vercelli
and was' the choice of clergy
and laity when the episcopal
chair became vacant. He
fought courageously against
the Arian heretics, who. had
him banished from Syria,
where he underwent many
hardships. He returned to Ver
celli under the reign of Julian
and died in 370. He is revered
as a martyr because of the
hardships he suffered.
SATURDAY, December 17—
St. Lazarus, Bishop-Confessor.
He was the disciple and friend
of Christ, who was raised from
the dead by Our Lord. It is
believed that with his sisters,
Mary and Martha, he journey
ed into. Gaul and was the first
Apostle , of southern France,
becoming Bishop of Marseilles.
He is the patron saint of that
city.
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